12-letter words containing v, a, i, s
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- ganges river — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- 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.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- 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.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- 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.
- invasiveness — The quality of being invasive.
- 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.