12-letter words containing r, e, s, v, t, a
- slave trader — sb who traffics in people
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- street value — monetary worth
- struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra
- superelevate — to raise above a normal level
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- 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.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- trivialities — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- 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)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- 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.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.