12-letter words containing l, o, v, e, a
- proper value — characteristic root.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.