12-letter words containing l, e, v, i, r
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- irrelievable — incapable of being relieved.
- irreprovable — Not reprovable; irreproachable.
- irreprovably — in an irreprovable manner
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- irreverently — not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply.
- irreversible — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irreversibly — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- libertyville — a town in NE Illinois.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lily-livered — weak or lacking in courage; cowardly; pusillanimous.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- live-forever — a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- loretteville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Quebec.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lumber river — a river in S central North Carolina and NE South Carolina, flowing SE and S to the Little Pee Dee River. 125 miles (201 km) long.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
- malternative — An alcoholic beverage that contains some malt alcohol, and may contain other types of alcohol, and that is an alternative to beer.
- malvern hill — a plateau in E Virginia, SE of Richmond: battle 1862.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- merrillville — a town in NE Indiana.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- mib variable — A managed object that is defined in a Management Information Base (MIB). The object is defined by a textual name and a corresponding object identifier, a syntax, an access mode, a status, and a description of the semantics of the managed object. The MIB Variable contains pertinent management information that is accessible as defined by the access mode.
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle river — a city in N Maryland: suburb of Baltimore.
- milk-livered — timid; cowardly
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.