12-letter words containing r, e, v, i, l, s
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- irreversible — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irreversibly — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multiversity — a university with several campuses, each of which has many schools, divisions, etc.
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- russellville — a city in central Arkansas.
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.