12-letter words containing r, e, s, v, t, a
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- dissertative — of or relating to dissertation
- disturbative — capable of disturbing
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- extravasates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extravasate.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- 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.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- governorates — Plural form of governorate.
- great vassal — (in feudal society) a man who entered into a personal relationship with a king to whom he paid homage and fealty in return for protection and often a fief.
- gustav hertz — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1887–1975, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1925.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- java servlet — (web) (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.