12-letter words containing o, v, e, r, t
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- pseudovector — a variable quantity, such as angular momentum, that has magnitude and orientation with respect to an axis. The components are even functions of the coordinates
- quote-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by quotations made by market makers or dealers
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reconvention — an action brought by the defendant in pending litigation against the plaintiff: the defendant's claim must be connected in some way with the subject matter of the plaintiff's action.
- reconviction — a fixed or firm belief: No clever argument, no persuasive fact or theory could make a dent in his conviction in the rightness of his position.
- 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.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- responsivity — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retrodictive — of or relating to retrodicting or retrodiction
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- retroversion — a looking or turning back.
- 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.
- reverse shot — a shot that views the action from the opposite side of the previous shot, as during a conversation between two actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the other.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- root version — The initial value of an object in a change management system.
- rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
- route survey — a survey for determining the route, grades, etc., of a railroad, highway, or power line.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- 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.
- seropositive — showing a significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, indicating previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- serve notice — to give formal warning or information, as of intentions; announce
- servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- silver point — the melting point of silver, equal to 960.8°C, used as a fixed point on the international temperature scale.
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- stereovision — visual perception in three dimensions.
- stones river — river in central Tenn., flowing into the Cumberland: c. 60 mi (97 km)
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- sweet clover — melilot.
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
- thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.