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-strauss — Claude, 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