0%

12-letter words containing v, e, r, i, l, y

  • oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overliterary — excessively literary
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • perceptively — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
  • perfectively — in a perfective manner; thoroughly
  • permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
  • persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
  • predictively — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
  • preventively — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
  • rally driver — sports-car racer
  • rarity value — if something has rarity value, it is valuable because there a few examples of it
  • recreatively — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
  • redemptively — serving to redeem.
  • reflectively — that reflects; reflecting.
  • reflectivity — that reflects; reflecting.
  • repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
  • repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
  • reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
  • respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • retractively — in a retractive manner
  • severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
  • silver belly — a freshwater eel
  • silver jenny — a silvery mojarra, Eucinostomus gula, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, along sandy shores.
  • 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.
  • sylvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
  • sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
  • transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
  • uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
  • universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
  • unrelievedly — in an unrelieved manner
  • unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • valetudinary — valetudinarian.
  • venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
  • verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?