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12-letter words containing l, u, v, i

  • invultuation — the use of or the act of making images of people, animals, etc, for witchcraft
  • jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
  • juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
  • 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.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
  • levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
  • levi-straussClaude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
  • liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • live through — experience or endure
  • live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
  • liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
  • living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
  • 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.
  • maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
  • manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
  • merveilleuse — marvellous
  • microvillous — Relating to microvilli.
  • multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
  • multi-volume — consisting of or encompassing several volumes: a multivolume encyclopedia.
  • multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
  • multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
  • multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
  • multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
  • multivariant — Characterised by multiple variables.
  • multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
  • multivarious — Many and various.
  • multiversity — a university with several campuses, each of which has many schools, divisions, etc.
  • multivitamin — containing or consisting of several vitamins: multivitamin capsules.
  • multivoltine — producing several broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths; polyvoltine.
  • non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
  • 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.
  • nonfrivolous — not frivolous
  • nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
  • nonuniversal — Not universal.
  • nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
  • nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
  • omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
  • overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
  • overflourish — to flourish excessively
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • 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.
  • polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
  • postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
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