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12-letter words containing o, r, v

  • a roving eye — If you say that a man has a roving eye, you are criticizing him for continually paying attention to different women.
  • abbreviation — An abbreviation is a short form of a word or phrase, made by leaving out some of the letters or by using only the first letter of each word.
  • abbreviatory — shortening
  • abortiveness — imperfect development; rudimentary nature
  • above ground — not underground
  • absorptivity — a measure of the ability of a material to absorb radiation, equal to the internal absorptance of a homogeneous layer of the material under conditions in which the path of the radiation has unit length and the boundaries of the layer have no influence
  • adenoviruses — Plural form of adenovirus.
  • adverb group — An adverb group or adverbial group is a group of words based on an adverb, such as 'very slowly' or 'fortunately for us'. An adverb group can also consist simply of an adverb.
  • advertorials — Plural form of advertorial.
  • aggravations — Plural form of aggravation.
  • air division — an organizational unit smaller than an air force, usually composed of a headquarters and two or more wings
  • air observer — observer (def 3).
  • all for love — a drama in blank verse (1678) by Dryden.
  • alto-relievo — high relief
  • alto-rilievo — alto-relievo
  • alyce clover — a tropical perennial clover (Alysicarpus vaginalis) sometimes used as a cover crop and for fodder
  • amazon river — a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world in volume of water carried. 3900 miles (6280 km) long.
  • ameliorative — Able to repair or ameliorate.
  • anchovy pear — a Jamaican tree, Grias cauliflora, bearing edible fruits that taste like the mango: family Lecythidaceae
  • animal lover — a person who feels fondness for animals
  • antananarivo — the capital of Madagascar, on the central plateau: founded in the 17th century by a Hova chief; university (1961). Pop: 1 808 000 (2005 est)
  • antigraviton — (mostly, scifi) The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.
  • antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
  • aortic valve — a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
  • arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
  • assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
  • asseveration — the act of asseverating.
  • atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
  • autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
  • avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
  • averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
  • baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
  • barcoo river — a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek
  • bard of avon — Shakespeare
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • biodiversity — Biodiversity is the existence of a wide variety of plant and animal species living in their natural environment.
  • blue vitriol — the fully hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulphate
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boucherville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
  • bournonville — Auguste [French oh-gyst] /French oʊˈgüst/ (Show IPA), 1805–79, Danish ballet dancer and choreographer.
  • bovver boots — heavy boots worn by some teenage youths in Britain, used in gang fights
  • boxgrove man — a type of primitive man, probably Homo heidelbergensis, and probably dating from the Middle Palaeolithic period some 500 000 years ago; remains were found at Boxgrove in West Sussex in 1993 and 1995
  • broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.

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