12-letter words containing o, v, e, r, i
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- 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.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- 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.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introversion — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introversive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introverting — a shy person.
- introvertish — Introverted.
- introvertive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- inventioneer — (rare) inventor.
- inventorying — Present participle of inventory.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- inveteration — The act of making inveterate.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- irreprovable — Not reprovable; irreproachable.
- irreprovably — in an irreprovable manner
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- irresponsive — not responsive; not responding, or not responding readily, as in speech, action, or feeling.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- live-forever — a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- loretteville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Quebec.
- lorry driver — a person who drives a lorry; a truck driver