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12-letter words containing i, v, o, r, y

  • piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • prediscovery — a previous discovery
  • previsionary — having foresight
  • pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • productivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • projectivity — of or relating to projection.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • 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.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
  • uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
  • unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
  • unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
  • ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
  • victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
  • victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
  • victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
  • victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
  • video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
  • video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
  • video player — VCR: videotape recorder
  • viola player — someone who plays the viola
  • violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
  • vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
  • voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
  • yarrow-river — a river in SE Scotland, flowing into the Tweed. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • yellow river — the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)
  • zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.
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