12-letter words containing n, o, a, v, i
- don giovanni — an opera (1787) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- envenomation — The injection of a venom etc by means of a sting, etc.
- envigorating — Present participle of envigorate.
- equivocating — Present participle of equivocate.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- excavational — Relating to excavation.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- fall in love — become infatuated
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- inactivation — The process of rendering something inactive.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- incogitative — Not cogitative; lacking the power of thought.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- innovational — something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
- innovatively — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intoxicative — of or relating to intoxicants or intoxication.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invagination — the act or process of invaginating.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- inveteration — The act of making inveterate.
- invigilation — The act of watching or invigilating.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- invigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.