12-letter words containing u, v, l
- corbel vault — a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.
- corruptively — In a corruptive way.
- countervails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countervail.
- countervalue — An equivalent or equal, especially in military strategy.
- courtly love — a tradition represented in Western European literature between the 12th and the 14th centuries, idealizing love between a knight and a revered (usually married) lady
- cradle vault — barrel vault.
- cultivatable — Cultivable.
- culvertailed — dove-tailed
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curvifoliate — having leaves curved or bent back
- curvirostral — having a curved or crooked beak
- de-evolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- delusiveness — The state or quality of being delusive.
- depopulative — That depopulates.
- devaluations — Plural form of devaluation.
- devil's club — a spiny shrub, Oplopanax horridus, of northwestern North America, having broad palmate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of bright red berries.
- devil's dung — asafetida.
- diminutively — In a diminutive manner.
- discursively — In a discursive manner.
- disinvoltura — Self-assurance; lack of constraint.
- disruptively — In a disruptive manner.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- diverticular — Of or relating to diverticula.
- diverticulum — a blind, tubular sac or process branching off from a canal or cavity, especially an abnormal, saclike herniation of the mucosal layer through the muscular wall of the colon.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- dutch clover — white clover.
- dzhugashvili — Iosif Vissarionovich [Russian yaw-syif-vyi-suh-ryi-aw-nuh-vyich] /Russian ˈyɔ syɪf vyɪ sə ryɪˈɔ nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Stalin, Joseph.
- edulcorative — edulcorant
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- eventfulness — The property of being eventful.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- evolutionism — (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
- evolutionist — A person who believes in the theories of evolution and natural selection.
- exclusive of — not including or allowing for; ignoring
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- fan vaulting — a system of fan vaults.
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- fluviomarine — of or formed by the combined action of river and sea.
- food vacuole — a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- future value — the value that a sum of money invested at compound interest will have after a specified period
- glove puppet — a small figure of a person or animal that fits over and is manipulated by the hand
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- ground level — ground state.
- guadalquivir — a river in S Spain, flowing W to the Gulf of Cádiz. 374 miles (602 km) long.