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12-letter words containing g, a, l, v, e

  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
  • living space — home: rooms, etc.
  • lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
  • malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
  • mixing valve — a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
  • navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
  • navel-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
  • noble savage — primitive indigenous person
  • nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
  • peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
  • pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
  • regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
  • revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
  • ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
  • salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
  • travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
  • travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
  • undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
  • unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
  • ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
  • unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
  • unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
  • unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • vaginicoline — living in a sheath
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
  • valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
  • vasoligature — vasoligation.
  • vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
  • vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
  • vernal grass — any of various Eurasian grasses of the genus Anthoxanthum, such as A. odoratum (sweet vernal grass), having the fragrant scent of coumarin
  • vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
  • village hall — function venue in small community
  • virgin metal — primary metal.
  • visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
  • visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
  • vitilitigate — to contend or backbite
  • volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
  • vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
  • vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
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