12-letter words containing v, e, t, r, a, n
- degenerative — A degenerative disease or condition is one that gets worse as time progresses.
- deprivations — Plural form of deprivation.
- derivational — Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived.
- detector van — a vehicle fitted with equipment that detects whether or not a house has a television. This is used to catch people who have not paid for a television licence and so are illegally using a television
- disadventure — misfortune; bad luck
- ditransitive — noting or pertaining to a verb taking both a direct and an indirect object, as give in “I gave him the package.”.
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- durante vita — during life.
- earth-moving — Earth-moving equipment is machinery that is used for digging and moving large amounts of soil.
- endeavorment — Act of endeavouring; effort.
- envigorating — Present participle of envigorate.
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- extra virgin — olive oil: of finest quality
- extravagance — Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
- extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
- extravaganza — An elaborate and spectacular entertainment or production.
- extravaganze — Irregular plural form of extravaganza.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- generativity — Relating to the ability to create or reproduce.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- governorates — Plural form of governorate.
- grave accent — a mark ( ˋ ) used to indicate:
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- 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.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- 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.