12-letter words containing g, i, v
- 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.
- 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).
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- living proof — sb whose existence is evidence of sth
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- 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.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- night vision — ability to see at night or in a dim light.
- 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.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- 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.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.