12-letter words containing s, u, a, v
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- invert sugar — a mixture of the dextrorotatory forms of glucose and fructose, formed naturally in fruits and produced artificially in syrups or fondants by treating cane sugar with acids.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lascaux cave — a cave in Lascaux, France, discovered in 1940 and containing exceptionally fine Paleolithic wall paintings and engravings thought to date to Magdalenian times (c13,000–8500 b.c.).
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- 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.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overissuance — the act of issuing in excessive amounts
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- overpurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- oversaturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- passive noun — a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- pervicacious — extremely willful; obstinate; stubborn.
- picornavirus — any of a group of small, RNA-containing viruses of the family Picornaviridae, infectious to humans and other animals, and including the poliovirus and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- sainte-beuve — Charles Augustin [sharl oh-gy-stan] /ʃarl oʊ güˈstɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1804–69, French literary critic.