12-letter words containing r, e, v, u
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- interruptive — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- 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.
- investitures — Plural form of investiture.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- 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).
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- 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.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- lumber river — a river in S central North Carolina and NE South Carolina, flowing SE and S to the Little Pee Dee River. 125 miles (201 km) long.
- maneuverable — capable of being steered or directed; easy to maneuver: The polyethylene craft remains as durable and maneuverable as any conventional high-performance kayak.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrable — Alternative spelling of maneuverable.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- mare vaporum — (Sea of Vapors) a dark plain in the first quadrant and near the center of the face of the moon: about 39,000 sq. mi. (101,000 sq. km).
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- mount vernon — the home and tomb of George Washington in NE Virginia, on the Potomac, 15 miles (24 km) below Washington, D.C.
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.