12-letter words containing o, l, e, v
- 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
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
- the evil one — the devil; Satan
- 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.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unapprovable — capable of being approved.
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- unconclusive — inconclusive
- underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- velvet glove — an outwardly gentle or friendly manner used to disguise one's firm or ruthless determination.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.