12-letter words containing v, i, t, e, l
- imputatively — In an imputative fashion or manner.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- indivertible — incapable of being diverted or turned aside
- inequivalent — Not equivalent.
- infiltrative — to filter into or through; permeate.
- infinitively — a verb form found in many languages that functions as a noun or is used with auxiliary verbs, and that names the action or state without specifying the subject, as French venir “to come,” Latin esse “to be,” fuisse “to have been.”.
- initiatively — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- innovatively — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- intake valve — a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine that opens at the proper moment in the cycle to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder.
- intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- 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.
- intervillage — occurring between two or more villages
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervisible — (surveying) Mutually visible; each in sight of the other.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intravesical — Within the urinary bladder.
- intravitreal — Within an eye.
- inveiglement — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
- investigable — capable of being investigated.
- inveterately — settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- irreflective — Without mental reflection.
- irrelatively — In an irrelative manner.
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- irreverently — not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply.
- king vulture — a large, black-and-white vulture, Sarcorhamphus papa, of Central and South America, having colorful wattles and wartlike protuberances on its head and neck.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- laxativeness — the condition or quality of being laxative
- leave-taking — a saying farewell; a parting or goodbye; departure: His leave-taking was brief.
- lentiviruses — Plural form of lentivirus.
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- levitational — Relating to levitation.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- libertyville — a town in NE Illinois.
- liberum veto — a veto exercised by a single member of a legislative body whose rules require unanimity.
- lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- live through — experience or endure
- live yoghurt — yoghurt that contains live bacteria
- liverpolitan — a native or inhabitant of Liverpool
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- loretteville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Quebec.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.