12-letter words containing s, e, v, r, l
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- 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.
- 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.
- overboldness — The state or fact of being too bold; audacity.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overdevelops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdevelop.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
- oversimplify — make too simple
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- provableness — the quality of being provable
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- reconvalesce — to convalesce again
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- roncesvalles — a village in N Spain, in the Pyrenees: defeat of part of Charlemagne's army and the death of Roland a.d.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- russellville — a city in central Arkansas.
- sacral nerve — any of the nerves arising in five pairs from the spinal cord in the sacrum.
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.
- sea lavender — an Old World, maritime plant, Limonium vulgare, of the leadwort family, having one-sided spikes of small, lavender-colored flowers.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.