12-letter words containing s, l, e, v, i
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- sylvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- teleservices — any services available through teletext
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- trivialities — something trivial; a trivial matter, affair, remark, etc.: cocktail conversation marked by trivialities.
- unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
- unconclusive — inconclusive
- undivestedly — in an undivested manner
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- universalism — universal character; universality.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- universalize — to make universal.
- unliveliness — the state or quality of being unlively
- unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
- unreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- 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
- vestibulitis — a painful inflammation of the entrance to the vagina
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent
- viruliferous — carrying a virus
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visual field — field of vision.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- visualizable — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.