12-letter words containing s, e, v, a, t
- trivialities — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- unexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.