12-letter words containing r, o, v, i
- 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.
- graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
- gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- 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.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- 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.
- hybrid vigor — heterosis.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- impoverisher — Someone who impoverishes.
- impoverishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of impoverish.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- in overdrive — in a state of intense activity
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally