12-letter words containing o, s, i, v, r
- discoverture — the state of being discovert; freedom from coverture.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- 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.
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- environments — Plural form of environment.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- gloversville — a city in E New York.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introversion — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introversive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introvertish — Introverted.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.