12-letter words containing l, u, r, v
- over-popular — regarded with favor, approval, or affection by people in general: a popular preacher.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- over-trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overcoloured — excessively coloured
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
- overpopulate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- overutilized — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- quill driver — a person who does a great deal of writing.
- rarity value — if something has rarity value, it is valuable because there a few examples of it
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- russellville — a city in central Arkansas.
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
- street value — monetary worth
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra
- super twelve — an annual international southern hemisphere Rugby Union tournament between teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
- superelevate — to raise above a normal level
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.