12-letter words containing v, i, r, t, u
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- resurrective — of or relating to resurrection
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- return visit — If you make a return visit, you visit someone who has already visited you, or you go back to a place where you have already been once.
- revictualled — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- silver trout — a variety of cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki henshawi, having silvery coloration, inhabiting Lake Tahoe.
- silviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- 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.
- stradivarius — a violin or other instrument made by Stradivari or his family.
- street virus — a virus, as rabies, obtained from a naturally infected animal and usually virulent, as opposed to a laboratory-attenuated strain.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- supravitally — in a supravital manner
- survival kit — Military. a package containing medical supplies, rations, and other vital equipment for use by a person forced to land in or parachute into the ocean, jungle, or other isolated or hostile territory.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- trumpet vine — trumpet creeper.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- unperceptive — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unredemptive — serving to redeem.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrepetitive — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venturi tube — a device for measuring the flow of a fluid, consisting of a tube with a short, narrow center section and widened, tapered ends, so that a fluid flowing through the center section at a higher velocity than through an end section creates a pressure differential that is a measure of the flow of the fluid.