12-letter words containing s, a, v
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- moveableness — The quality of being moveable.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- nail varnish — nail polish.
- nasal cavity — sinus
- naval stores — supplies for warships.
- negativeness — The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- negativities — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- no vacancies — No vacancies is used on a notice at a hotel or guest house when there are no rooms available to rent.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- non-activist — an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
- non-invasive — not invading adjacent healthy cells, blood vessels, or tissues; localized: a noninvasive tumor.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
- ovariotomist — a surgeon who performs ovariotomies
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- overabstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overbalances — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overbalance.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.