12-letter words containing v, e, n, r, a
- 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.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- inobservable — Unobservable.
- inobservance — lack of attention; inattention; heedlessness: drowsy inobservance.
- interleaving — sector interleave
- interpluvial — designating a drier period occurring between two periods of persistently heavy rainfall
- intervaginal — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to or involving the vagina.
- 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.
- intervillage — occurring between two or more villages
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- intransitive — noting or having the quality of an intransitive verb.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- intravitreal — Within an eye.
- invercargill — a city on S South Island, in New Zealand.
- 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.
- invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
- investigator — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- inveterately — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- inveteration — The act of making inveterate.
- invigorative — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- invulnerable — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- invulnerably — In an invulnerable manner.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- 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.
- japan clover — a drought-resistant bush clover, Lespedeza striata, of the legume family, introduced to the southern Atlantic states from Asia, having numerous tiny trifoliate leaves valued for pasturage and hay.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- jugular vein — vein that carries blood from head to heart
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- lake vättern — a lake in S central Sweden: the second largest lake in Sweden; linked to Lake Vänern by the Göta Canal; drains into the Baltic. Area: 1912 sq km (738 sq miles)
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- live in fear — You can use expressions such as to live in fear and to live in terror to indicate that someone is always thinking about an unpleasant or frightening event, because they think that it might happen.
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- lovers' lane — a secluded lane, road, or parking area sought out by lovers for its privacy.
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- malt vinegar — acidic condiment made from malted barley