12-letter words containing g, a, v, i, l
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- 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.
- 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.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- navel-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
- navigability — deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships: a navigable channel.
- navigational — the act or process of navigating.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- 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
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- 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
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- 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.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- 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.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- village hall — function venue in small community
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virginalling — playing as on the virginal
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).