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12-letter words containing s, u, a, v

  • sales volume — quantity of goods sold
  • samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
  • sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
  • sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
  • scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
  • scurvy grass — a plant, Cochlearia officinalis, of the mustard family, purported to be a remedy for scurvy.
  • security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
  • sendai virus — a paramyxovirus that tends to cause cell fusion: in inactive form, used in biological research to produce cells with multiple nuclei of different genetic constitutions.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
  • south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
  • sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
  • squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • stradivarius — a violin or other instrument made by Stradivari or his family.
  • street value — monetary worth
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • sub-additive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
  • subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
  • substantival — noting, of, or pertaining to a substantive.
  • subvertebral — located below a vertebra
  • superelevate — to raise above a normal level
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supravitally — in a supravital manner
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
  • survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
  • survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
  • sustentative — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
  • svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
  • transumptive — of or relating to transumption
  • transvaluate — to change the value of
  • 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.
  • unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
  • unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
  • unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
  • under canvas — If you are living and sleeping under canvas, you are living and sleeping in a tent.
  • underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
  • unexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • 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.
  • unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
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