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12-letter words containing v, a, r

  • antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
  • aortic valve — a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
  • apperceiving — Present participle of apperceive.
  • apperceptive — conscious perception.
  • appletviewer — (web, testing)   A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
  • appreciative — An appreciative reaction or comment shows the enjoyment that you are getting from something.
  • apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
  • archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
  • archive site — (networking)   (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
  • arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
  • arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
  • arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
  • arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
  • arthur evans — Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
  • articulative — relating to articulation
  • assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
  • asseverating — Present participle of asseverate.
  • asseveration — the act of asseverating.
  • asseverative — characterized by or relating to solemn declaration or affirmation
  • at a venture — at random; by chance
  • at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
  • atharva-veda — the fourth and latest Veda, largely consisting of priestly spells and incantations
  • atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
  • attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
  • attractivity — The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.
  • autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
  • avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
  • avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
  • average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
  • averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
  • aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
  • aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
  • avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
  • baker's oven — an oven used esp for baking bread
  • barcoo river — a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek
  • bard of avon — Shakespeare
  • barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
  • bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
  • basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
  • beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
  • beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
  • beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
  • beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
  • behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
  • behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
  • beta version — beta testing
  • bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
  • bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
  • bond servant — a person who serves in bondage; slave.
  • boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
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