12-letter words containing v, l, s, i
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- pennsylvania — a state in the E United States. 45,333 sq. mi. (117,410 sq. km). Capital: Harrisburg. Abbreviation: PA (for use with zip code), Pa., Penn., Penna.
- perivisceral — surrounding or situated about the viscera.
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- perspectival — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- persuasively — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- pons varolii — pons (def 1).
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- possessively — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
- postdiluvial — existing or occurring after the biblical Flood
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postvaccinal — occurring after a vaccine
- proclivities — natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- quacksalving — resembling or characteristic of a quacksalver
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- relativeness — the state or fact of being relative.
- relativistic — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- renal pelvis — a small funnel-shaped cavity of the kidney into which urine is discharged before passing into the ureter
- replevisable — capable of being replevied.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retropulsive — of or relating to retropulsion
- river nelson — a river in central Canada, in N central Manitoba, flowing from Lake Winnipeg northeast to Hudson Bay. Length: about 650 km (400 miles)
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- russellville — a city in central Arkansas.
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
- salvationist — a member of the Salvation Army.
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- salvifically — in a saving manner
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- schererville — a town in NW Indiana.