12-letter words containing n, o, a, v, i
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nontrivially — In a nontrivial manner.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nonviability — The state or condition of being nonviable; impracticality.
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novelization — The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- opinionative — of, relating to, or of the nature of opinion.
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-reliant — having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overreaction — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overreliance — confident or trustful dependence.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent
- overtaxation — to tax too heavily.
- overtime ban — a refusal by employees to work overtime
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- pancho-villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- pons varolii — pons (def 1).
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine