12-letter words containing r, e, v, o, i
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- endeavouring — Present participle of endeavour.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- envigorating — Present participle of envigorate.
- environments — Plural form of environment.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- everblooming — (of a plant) blooming repeatedly during the growing season
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- 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.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- floppy drive — disk drive
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- forward dive — a dive from a position facing the water in which the diver jumps up from the springboard, rotating the body forward, and enters the water either headfirst or feetfirst.
- gaboon viper — a large, venomous snake, Bitis gabonica, of tropical African forests, having large retractable fangs and geometrically patterned scales of yellow, brown, and sometimes purple.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give over to — If something is given over or given up to a particular use, it is used entirely for that purpose.
- give rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- gloversville — a city in E New York.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
- gregory viii — (Alberto de MoraorAlberto di Morra) died 1187, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1187.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- grovellingly — With grovelling or self-abasement; obsequiously.
- hair removal — depilatory treatment
- hair remover — depilatory cream
- haricot vert — green bean.
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.