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12-letter words containing o, t, a, v, r

  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • private joke — a joke that is understood only by a certain social group
  • pro-activity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provitamin a — carotene.
  • reactivation — to render active again; revive.
  • reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvitation — the act of inviting.
  • rejuvenation — to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc.: That vacation has certainly rejuvenated him.
  • remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
  • revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
  • revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
  • reverberator — to reecho or resound: Her singing reverberated through the house.
  • revisitation — the act of visiting.
  • 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.
  • royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
  • seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • svga monitor — (hardware, graphics)   A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
  • toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
  • transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
  • traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
  • turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
  • ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
  • unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
  • valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • varia lectio — a variant reading.
  • variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
  • variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
  • vasoligature — vasoligation.
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
  • 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.
  • 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
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