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12-letter words containing s, a, v

  • inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
  • intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
  • intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
  • intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
  • intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
  • invasiveness — The quality of being invasive.
  • 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.
  • investigable — capable of being investigated.
  • investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
  • investigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of investigate.
  • investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
  • invigorators — Plural form of invigorator.
  • irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
  • irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
  • irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
  • isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • japanese ivy — Boston ivy
  • java servlet — (web)   (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
  • java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
  • javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
  • juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
  • 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).
  • kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
  • kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
  • labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
  • laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
  • landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
  • lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
  • lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
  • lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
  • lawn sleeves — (used with a plural verb) the sleeves of lawn forming part of the dress of an Anglican bishop.
  • laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
  • levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
  • 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.
  • life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • living space — home: rooms, etc.
  • love handles — fat midriff
  • lover's leap — a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.
  • lovers' lane — a secluded lane, road, or parking area sought out by lovers for its privacy.
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
  • malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
  • maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
  • manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
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