12-letter words containing g, e, n, v, i
- introverting — a shy person.
- inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- investigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of investigate.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invitingness — The state of being inviting; attractiveness.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- 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.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- 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.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- 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
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- 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.
- 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-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
- 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 = .
- negative tax — a payment by the State to a person with a low income, the magnitude of the payment increasing as the income decreases. It is regarded as a form of social welfare
- negativeness — The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- negativities — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nerve ending — Your nerve endings are the millions of points on the surface of your body and inside it which send messages to your brain when you feel sensations such as heat, cold, and pain.
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- noncognitive — of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. : cognitive development; cognitive functioning.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- 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-running — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- overbrimming — Present participle of overbrim.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.