12-letter words containing v, a, g
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- orange grove — small orchard of orange trees
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- overcharging — Present participle of overcharge.
- overcramming — excessive cramming
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overorganize — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overreaching — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
- overregulate — to apply rules and regulations excessively to (something)
- oversanguine — too optimistic
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- paving stone — slab used to lay a path
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- photoengrave — to make a photoengraving of.
- photogravure — any of various processes, based on photography, by which an intaglio engraving is formed on a metal plate, from which ink reproductions are made.
- postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
- prerogatived — possessing a prerogative
- primigravida — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- privateering — an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- re-aggravate — to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.
- regenerative — of, relating to, or characterized by regeneration.
- regular verb — verb that follows standard conjugation
- reinvigorate — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- rejuvenating — making young again
- revegetation — to cause vegetation to grow again on: to revegetate eroded lands.
- reverse gear — The reverse gear of a vehicle is the gear which you use in order to make the vehicle go backwards.
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- rice vinegar — a vinegar made from fermented rice or rice wine, used esp in Chinese and Japanese cuisine
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- rock carving — the practice of carving on rock
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- saving grace — a quality that makes up for other generally negative characteristics; redeeming feature.
- savings bank — a bank that receives savings accounts only and pays interest to its depositors.
- savings bond — a U.S. government bond with principal amounts up to $10,000.
- scavengering — scavenging
- scuba diving — deep-sea swimming
- scurvy grass — a plant, Cochlearia officinalis, of the mustard family, purported to be a remedy for scurvy.
- seronegative — showing no significant level of serum antibodies, or other immunologic marker in the serum, that would indicate previous exposure to the infectious agent being tested.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties