12-letter words containing i, n, o, v
- provincially — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- provisionary — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- provitamin a — carotene.
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- reconvention — an action brought by the defendant in pending litigation against the plaintiff: the defendant's claim must be connected in some way with the subject matter of the plaintiff's action.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- reconviction — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvitation — the act of inviting.
- rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
- remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- 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
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- 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.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- severodvinsk — a city in the N Russian Federation in Europe, on Dvina Gulf, E of Archangel.
- 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.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- slovenliness — untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
- soviet union — the legislature of the former Soviet Union and its successor states, consisting of an upper house (Soviet of the Union or Council of the Union) whose delegates are elected on the basis of population, and a lower house (Soviet of Nationalities or Council of Nationalities) whose delegates are elected to represent the various nationalities.
- spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stereovision — visual perception in three dimensions.
- stones river — river in central Tenn., flowing into the Cumberland: c. 60 mi (97 km)