12-letter words containing o, l, e, v
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-evolved — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver spoon — spoon (def 16).
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sleeve board — a small-scale ironing board for pressing sleeves, especially a narrow board that fits inside a coat sleeve.
- sleeve notes — the printed information on a record sleeve
- slovenliness — untidy or unclean in appearance or habits.
- 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
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.