12-letter words containing g, a, v, o
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- 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
- rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- shaving soap — a special soap for lathering the face to soften and condition the beard for shaving, capable of producing a thick lather due to its high fat content and low alkalinity.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unmotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- vargas llosa — Mario, born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- 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.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vinyasa yoga — a style of yoga in which breathing exercises are used to synchronize fluid transitions through a fixed sequence of poses
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volcanologic — relating to vulcanology
- voting paper — a ballot.
- 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.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.