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12-letter words containing v, e, r

  • snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
  • snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
  • spirit level — a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.
  • spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • squaresville — a thing, place, etc., regarded as conventional, unfashionable, or conservative.
  • stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
  • steam-driven — powered by steam
  • stereovision — visual perception in three dimensions.
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • stones river — river in central Tenn., flowing into the Cumberland: c. 60 mi (97 km)
  • street level — ground level
  • street value — monetary worth
  • street virus — a virus, as rabies, obtained from a naturally infected animal and usually virulent, as opposed to a laboratory-attenuated strain.
  • strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
  • struma-river — a river in S Europe, flowing SE through SW Bulgaria and NE Greece into the Aegean. 225 miles (362 km) long.
  • subscriptive — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • subservience — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
  • 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
  • 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
  • superevident — extremely or very evident
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supervenient — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • sylvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
  • sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
  • takeover bid — offer to buy a company
  • tavern table — a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.
  • teleservices — any services available through teletext
  • tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tetravalence — the condition of having a valency of four
  • thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
  • the bereaved — the survivors of a person who has died recently
  • the services — the armed forces
  • the varletry — rabble; mob
  • the-overcoat — a short story (1842) by Gogol.
  • thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
  • thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
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