12-letter words containing i, r, e, t, v
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- retrievement — a retrieval
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- 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.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- 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.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- 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.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- shirt-sleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
- shirtsleeved — not wearing a jacket or coat
- sierra vista — a town in S Arizona.
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver plate — thin coat of silver
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver state — Nevada (used as a nickname).
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
- silvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- spirit level — a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.
- spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stereovision — visual perception in three dimensions.
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- stones river — river in central Tenn., flowing into the Cumberland: c. 60 mi (97 km)
- street virus — a virus, as rabies, obtained from a naturally infected animal and usually virulent, as opposed to a laboratory-attenuated strain.
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.