12-letter words containing v, m
- people mover — any of various forms of mass transit, as moving sidewalks or automated driverless vehicles, used for transporting people along limited, fixed routes, as around airports or congested urban areas.
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- permissively — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- permissivism — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permissivist — lenience toward or indulgence of a wide variety of social behavior.
- permittivity — Electricity. the ratio of the flux density produced by an electric field in a given dielectric to the flux density produced by that field in a vacuum.
- piet-my-vrou — a cuckoo, Notococcyx solitarius, having a red breast
- polyomavirus — any of a genus (Polyomavirus) of papovaviruses that naturally infect wild and laboratory mice, and that cause tumors when injected into newborn mice
- postmedieval — occurring or existing after the Middle Ages, of or related to the period after the Middle Ages
- postvagotomy — of or occurring in the period after a vagotomy
- power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
- preemptively — of or relating to preemption.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- primary verb — one of the three verbs, be, do, and have, that can function both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb.
- primary wave — Seismology. P wave.
- primigravida — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- provitamin a — carotene.
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- reinvestment — putting money into sth again
- remotivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
- renversement — a reversal, an inversion, the act of reversing
- reserve team — a second team of a sports club, such as a football club, made up of emerging and young players
- retrievement — a retrieval
- reverse arms — to turn one's arms upside down, esp as a token of mourning
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- room divider — a partition, as a screen or freestanding bookcase, that separates one part of a room from another.
- room service — the serving of food, drinks, etc., to a guest in his or her room, as at a hotel.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- samuel lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- semi-invalid — a person who is partially disabled or somewhat infirm
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- semivitreous — partially vitreous.
- septemvirate — the ruling body of septemvirs.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- shaving foam — lather used for shaving
- silver bream — a type of ray-finned fish from the family Cyprinidae
- silver maple — a maple, Acer saccharinum, having leaves that are light green above and silvery white beneath.
- silver medal — a medal, traditionally of silver or silver in color, awarded to a person or team finishing second in a competition, meet, or tournament.
- silver mound — a perennial Japanese herb, Artemisia schmidtiana, having silver-green leaves forming a moundlike shape.
- smother-love — a relationship between a parent and child in which the parent is over-protective to the extent that the child's normal psychological development is inhibited
- spot remover — a concentrated cleaning fluid used to remove small areas of staining, such as on a carpet
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.