12-letter words containing v, i, r
- 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)
- stradivarius — a violin or other instrument made by Stradivari or his family.
- stravinskian — of, relating to, or suggesting the composer Igor Stravinsky or his works.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- 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.
- survivorship — the state of being a survivor.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- 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
- teleservices — any services available through teletext
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- thames river — a river in S England, flowing E through London to the North Sea. 209 miles (336 km) long.
- the services — the armed forces
- thermomotive — pertaining to motion produced by heat.
- thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
- thortveitite — a scandium yttrium silicate mineral occurring in grayish-green orthorhombic crystals.
- three rivers — a city in S Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- thrivingness — the state or condition of thriving, flourishing, prospering or growing
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transitivity — verb: requiring a direct object
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transvaalian — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.