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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).
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