12-letter words containing v, i, s, t
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hypertensive — characterized by or causing high blood pressure.
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- Îles du vent — a group of islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia in the W Society Archipelago: Moorea, Maio (Tubuai Manu), and Mehetia and Tetiaroa. Pop: 184 222 (2002)
- illustrative — serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- improvisator — a person who improvises; improviser.
- incentivised — Simple past tense and past participle of incentivise.
- incentivises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of incentivise.
- incentivizes — to give incentives to: The government should incentivize the private sector to create jobs.
- 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.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- inexhaustive — not exhaustive; not thorough
- ingravescent — (esp of a disease) becoming more severe
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- insusceptive — insusceptible
- intempestive — untimely or inopportune
- intensivists — Plural form of intensivist.
- intermissive — of, relating to, or characterized by intermission.
- interservice — (US) Involving relationships between branches of the armed services.
- 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.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
- intervillous — Between the villi.