12-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- governorates — Plural form of governorate.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- grand vizier — the chief officer of state of various Muslim countries, as in the former Ottoman Empire.
- grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- graven image — an idol.
- gravenhages' — a Dutch name of The Hague.
- green plover — lapwing.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- ground cover — the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
- ground level — ground state.
- grovellingly — With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- have a nerve — If you say that someone has a nerve or has the nerve to do something, you are criticizing them for doing something which you feel they had no right to do.
- helping verb — auxiliary verb.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hoover apron — a dresslike coverall for women that ties at the waist.
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- inexpressive — not expressive; lacking in expression.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interceptive — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interdictive — Having the power to prohibit.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- interjective — Interjectional.
- interleaving — sector interleave