12-letter words containing i, r, e, t, v
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- heavy hitter — a baseball player who makes many extra-base hits.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hypergravity — The presence of an apparently 'increased' gravitational field in an accelerating or rotating situation.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imperatively — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperceptive — not perceptive; lacking perception.
- imperfective — noting an aspect of the verb, as in Russian, that indicates incompleteness of the action or state at a temporal point of reference.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interleaving — sector interleave
- intermissive — of, relating to, or characterized by intermission.
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- intervaginal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or involving the vagina.
- intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- intervenient — intervening, as in place, time, order, or action.
- interventing — Present participle of intervent.
- intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
- interviewing — Present participle of interview.
- intervillage — occurring between two or more villages
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervisible — (surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.