12-letter words containing r, i, v, a, l
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- curvirostral — having a curved or crooked beak
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- deleveraging — an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.
- deliberative — A deliberative institution or procedure has the power or the right to make important decisions.
- deliverables — items named in a contract, course, or project that must be delivered for its successful completion
- deliverances — Plural form of deliverance.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- derivatively — derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- devil's mark — (in witchcraft) a mark, as a scar or blemish, on the body of a person who has made a compact with a devil.
- discoverable — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- divinatorial — of or related to divination
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- endocervical — Within a cervix.
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- facial nerve — either one of the seventh pair of cranial nerves composed of motor fibers that control muscles of the face except those used in chewing.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- gravel-blind — more blind or dim-sighted than sand-blind and less than stone-blind.
- gravicembalo — a harpsichord.
- gravity cell — a cell containing two electrolytes that have different specific gravities.
- guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.
- hair removal — depilatory treatment
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- harlem river — tidal river separating Manhattan Island from the Bronx &, with Spuyten Duyvil Creek, connecting the East River with the Hudson: c. 8 mi (12.9 km)
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- 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.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.