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12-letter words containing g, a, v, o

  • gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
  • have a (good — to feel (strongly) inclined to
  • have a go at — attack verbally
  • have got sth — You use have got to say that someone has a particular thing, or to mention a quality or characteristic that someone or something has. In informal American English, people sometimes just use 'got'.
  • have it good — to be in comfortable circumstances
  • heavy oxygen — either of the two stable isotopes of oxygen having mass numbers of 17 and 18.
  • heliogravure — photoengraving.
  • high voltage — high-power electricity
  • high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
  • hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
  • incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
  • invagination — the act or process of invaginating.
  • investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • invigilation — The act of watching or invigilating.
  • invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
  • invigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • invigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • invigorators — Plural form of invigorator.
  • 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
  • line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
  • 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.
  • manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
  • microgravity — a condition, especially in space orbit, where the force of gravity is so weak that weightlessness results.
  • movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
  • navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
  • navigational — the act or process of navigating.
  • negative ion — an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
  • nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
  • noble savage — primitive indigenous person
  • nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
  • nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
  • nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
  • orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
  • orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
  • over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
  • over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
  • overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
  • overcramming — excessive cramming
  • overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
  • overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
  • overfatigued — excessively fatigued
  • overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
  • overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
  • overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
  • overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
  • oversanguine — too optimistic
  • overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
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