12-letter words containing s, n, i, v
- disbelieving — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
- discoverment — (obsolete) discovery.
- disgavelling — the act or quality of being without gavelkind
- dishevelling — Present participle of dishevel.
- dishevelment — to let down, as hair, or wear or let hang in loose disorder, as clothing.
- disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
- disinvesting — Present participle of disinvest.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disjunctives — Plural form of disjunctive.
- dispensative — Granting dispensation.
- disservicing — harmful or injurious service; an ill turn.
- disseverance — The act of dissevering; separation.
- disseverment — Disseverance.
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- divergencies — Plural form of divergency.
- diversifying — Present participle of diversify.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- diversionist — a person engaged in activities that divert attention from a primary focus.
- dividendless — without dividends
- divisiveness — forming or expressing division or distribution.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effusiveness — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- eighty-seven — a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
- electiveness — Quality of being elective.
- encaptivates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encaptivate.
- enviableness — Enviability.
- environments — Plural form of environment.
- envisagement — The act of envisaging.
- evangelicals — Plural form of evangelical.
- evangelistic — Seeking to convert others to the Christian faith; missionary.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- evolutionism — (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
- evolutionist — A person who believes in the theories of evolution and natural selection.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.