12-letter words containing v, a, r, s
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irresolvable — not resolvable; incapable of being resolved, analyzable, or solvable.
- irresolvably — In an irresolvable manner.
- 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".
- java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
- 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.
- labor-saving — A labor-saving device or idea makes it possible for you to do something with less effort than usual.
- laboursaving — reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- 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.
- 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.
- lover's leap — a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.
- lovers' lane — a secluded lane, road, or parking area sought out by lovers for its privacy.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- manu-service — denoting a business that involves both the manufacture of goods and the provision of after-sales services
- martinsville — a city in S Virginia.
- marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
- 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.
- ministrative — Serving to aid; ministering.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- misbehaviour — (British) alternative spelling of misbehavior.
- multivarious — Many and various.
- nail varnish — nail polish.
- naval stores — supplies for warships.