12-letter words containing v, e, g
- ivy geranium — a trailing geranium, Pelargonium peltatum, of southern Africa, having a fleshy stem that becomes woody with age, glossy, ivy-shaped leaves, and clusters of flowers ranging from white to deep rose in color.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- juvenilizing — Present participle of juvenilize.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- 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.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- life savings — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- linking verb — copula (def 2).
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- living space — home: rooms, etc.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- lope de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley
- maneuverings — Plural form of maneuvering.
- manoeuvering — Present participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvrings — Plural form of manoeuvring.
- microgrooves — Plural form of microgroove.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- misgoverning — Present participle of misgovern.
- mixing valve — a valve receiving water from both a hot-water and a cold-water line and controlling the relative amount of water admitted from each.
- morton grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- navel-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
- negative ion — an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- negative tax — a payment by the State to a person with a low income, the magnitude of the payment increasing as the income decreases. It is regarded as a form of social welfare
- negativeness — The characteristic of being negative; negativity.
- negativistic — a negative or pessimistic attitude.
- negativities — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- negev desert — the desert region of S Israel
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nerve ending — Your nerve endings are the millions of points on the surface of your body and inside it which send messages to your brain when you feel sensations such as heat, cold, and pain.
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- noncognitive — of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. : cognitive development; cognitive functioning.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- nueva gerona — a town on the Isle of Pines, S of Cuba.
- 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.