12-letter words containing s, u, r, v
- jurisdictive — Jurisdictional.
- 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
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- 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.
- living trust — a trust that takes effect during the lifetime of the settlor.
- 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.
- merveilleuse — marvellous
- microvillous — Relating to microvilli.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- misventurous — characterized by a mishap
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multivarious — Many and various.
- multiversity — a university with several campuses, each of which has many schools, divisions, etc.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- 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.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overconsumed — Simple past tense and past participle of overconsume.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overexposure — excessive exposure, especially of photographic film or a sensitized plate to light rays.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- overgenerous — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- 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.
- overpressure — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
- 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.
- overscutched — overworked; worn out
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- 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.