12-letter words containing s, t, o, v, e
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stereovision — visual perception in three dimensions.
- stones river — river in central Tenn., flowing into the Cumberland: c. 60 mi (97 km)
- stove enamel — a type of enamel made heatproof by treatment in a stove
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
- sweet clover — melilot.
- 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.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- 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)
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- 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.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- virtuousness — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vision quest — (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
- vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- volitionless — having no volition
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.