12-letter words containing s, t, a, v, r
- transylvania — a region and former province in central Romania: formerly part of Hungary. 24,027 sq. mi. (62,230 sq. km).
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- 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.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- 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
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- 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.