12-letter words containing l, i, v, e
- nomenclative — relating to the act of naming
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
- non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- non-volatile — non-volatile storage
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- noncivilized — Not civilized.
- noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonviolently — In a nonviolent manner.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novelization — The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- novell, inc. — (company, networking) A software development company specialising in networking and workgroup applications. The company has diversified in recent years, with the acquisition of several mainstream applications, including Wordperfect and Quattro Pro. Other products include UnixWare, AppWare, Personal NetWare, Groupwise and Novell Dos 7. (21 Sept 1995)
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcritical — excessively critical; hypercritical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overexplicit — excessively explicit
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overinclined — extremely or excessively inclined (to)
- overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.