12-letter words containing g, l, a, n, v
- 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.
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- 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.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- 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.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- 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.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- 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.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- vernal grass — any of various Eurasian grasses of the genus Anthoxanthum, such as A. odoratum (sweet vernal grass), having the fragrant scent of coumarin
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- 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).
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volcanologic — relating to vulcanology
- 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.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- 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.