12-letter words containing t, s, a, v
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incrassative — A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humours.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- intervarsity — any first-string team, especially in sports, that represents a school, college, university, or the like: He is on the varsity in tennis and in debating.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- 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.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- investigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of investigate.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- invigilators — Plural form of invigilator.
- invigorators — Plural form of invigorator.
- java servlet — (web) (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. The most common use for a servlet is to extend a web server by generating web content dynamically. For example, a client may need information from a database; a servlet can be written that receives the request, gets and processes the data as needed by the client and then returns the result to the client. Servlets are more flexible than CGI scripts and, being written in Java, more portable. The spelling "servelet" is occasionally seen but JavaSoft spell it "servlet". There is no such thing as a "serverlet".
- 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).
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- larval stage — Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers. Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour hacking run in a given week; neglect of all other activities including usual basics like food, sleep, and personal hygiene; and a chronic case of advanced bleary-eye. Can last from 6 months to 2 years, the apparent median being around 18 months. A few so afflicted never resume a more "normal" life, but the ordeal seems to be necessary to produce really wizardly (as opposed to merely competent) programmers. See also wannabee. A less protracted and intense version of larval stage (typically lasting about a month) may recur when one is learning a new OS or programming language.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- 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.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- nasal cavity — sinus
- naval stores — supplies for warships.
- negativeness — The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- negativities — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- non-activist — an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- noncausative — Not causative.
- nonobservant — Not observant; not religious; not participating in the observance of religion.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- outmaneuvers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outmaneuver.