12-letter words containing v, a, l, i, u
- heliogravure — photoengraving.
- humeral veil — a fringed scarf, usually white and ornamented in the middle, worn over the shoulders by a priest or subdeacon during certain parts of a High Mass.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- illuminative — giving light; illuminating.
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- individual's — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- individually — one at a time; separately: The delegates were introduced individually.
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- inequivalved — having the valves of the shell of a mollusk unequal in size
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- involutional — of, relating to, or characteristic of involutional melancholia: involutional symptoms.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- invultuation — the use of or the act of making images of people, animals, etc, for witchcraft
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- lasciviously — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- 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.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
- manipulative — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- multigravida — a pregnant woman who has been pregnant two or more times.
- multivalence — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- multivariant — Characterised by multiple variables.
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- multivitamin — containing or consisting of several vitamins: multivitamin capsules.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nulligravida — A female who has never been pregnant.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- pulverizable — that can be pulverized
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- quantivalent — relating to quantivalence
- rarity value — if something has rarity value, it is valuable because there a few examples of it
- reevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- substantival — noting, of, or pertaining to a substantive.