12-letter words containing s, l, e, v, i
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imperviously — In an impervious manner; impenetrably; impermeably.
- impressively — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- inclusive of — including; taking into account
- inclusive or — the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if either or both of the disjuncts are true
- inconclusive — not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence.
- indecisively — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervisible — (surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- irreversible — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irreversibly — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- javelin fish — a fish of the genus Pomadasys of semitropical Australian seas with a long spine on its anal fin
- kelvin scale — William Thomson, 1st Baron, 1824–1907, English physicist and mathematician.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- lepenski vir — the site of an advanced Mesolithic fishing culture on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, characterized by trapezoidal buildings and large stone sculptures of human heads and torsos.
- 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.
- linked verse — a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- liverishness — Quality of being liverish.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- lovesickness — Quality or property of being lovesick.
- madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- microvessels — Plural form of microvessel.
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- mis-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- misadvisedly — ill-advisedly
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- motivelessly — Without a motive.