12-letter words containing v, e, l, u, s
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- over-jealous — feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often followed by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- puff sleeves — the sleeves of a women's garment that are gathered at the shoulders and caught in at the cuff to create an inflated, puffy effect
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quaquaversal — (of a geological formation) sloping downward from the center in all directions.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- renovascular — of or relating to the blood vessels of the kidneys.
- resale value — the price which something can achieve when sold in the future
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- russellville — a city in central Arkansas.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- service club — any of several organizations dedicated to the growth and general welfare of its members and the community.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- slave labour — Slave labour refers to slaves or to work done by slaves.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
- squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
- steubenville — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- street value — monetary worth
- subcivilized — not quite civilized
- subdividable — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- subjectively — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- submissively — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- subvertebral — located below a vertebra
- successively — following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.
- suggestively — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- super twelve — an annual international southern hemisphere Rugby Union tournament between teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
- superelevate — to raise above a normal level
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
- unconclusive — inconclusive
- undeservedly — according to desert; justly; rightly.
- undivestedly — in an undivested manner
- uninvestable — that can be invested.