12-letter words containing m, v, o
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- 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
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- time to live — (TTL) A field in the Internet Protocol header which indicates how many more hops this packet should be allowed to make before being discarded or returned.
- unmotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- voluminously — forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes: a voluminous edition.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- voluntourism — tourism in which travellers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting
- vomiturition — ineffectual efforts to vomit.
- von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- woman driver — a female driver