12-letter words containing r, e, v, o
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- proxy server — (software, security) (Capitalised) Microsoft's proxy server and proxy gateway, designed to provide extensible firewall and network security. Proxy Server is part of BackOffice.
- 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
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- reactivation — to render active again; revive.
- reconceiving — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- 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.
- reconversion — to convert again.
- reconveyance — to convey again.
- 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.
- recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- rediscoverer — a person who rediscovers
- 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.
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- 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.
- revenge porn — sexually suggestive images of someone, typically a former romantic partner, that are posted online or otherwise shared without the person's consent.
- revenue bond — a bond issued, as by a municipal utility, to finance a specific project, the income from which will be used for repaying the bond.
- 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.
- reverse snob — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- reversionary — of, relating to, or involving a reversion.
- reversionist — a person who advocates reverting to the conditions, customs, ideals, etc., of an earlier era.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- revisitation — the act of visiting.
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- 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)
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).