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12-letter words containing v, o, l, e, y

  • marvellously — In a marvellous manner.
  • motivelessly — Without a motive.
  • movable type — type from which text is printed directly in which each character is on a separate piece of metal.
  • nonviolently — In a nonviolent manner.
  • olive family — the plant family Oleaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having opposite, simple or pinnately compound leaves, usually small and sometimes showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or winged seed, and including the ash, forsythia, lilac, olive, and privet.
  • only have to — If you say you only have to do one thing in order to achieve or prove a second thing, you are emphasizing how easily the second thing can be achieved or proved.
  • oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
  • over-analyze — to separate (a material or abstract entity) into constituent parts or elements; determine the elements or essential features of (opposed to synthesize): to analyze an argument.
  • over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
  • overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
  • overclassify — to classify to excess
  • overliterary — excessively literary
  • overmodestly — in an extremely modest manner
  • overmultiply — to increase too much or too often
  • oversimplify — make too simple
  • oversubtlety — the quality of being too subtle
  • pay envelope — an envelope containing a paycheck or wages.
  • 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
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • protensively — in the manner of duration
  • proverbially — of, relating to, or characteristic of a proverb: proverbial brevity.
  • responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • rotary valve — a valve that rotates continuously or through an arc to open and close.
  • shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
  • snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
  • uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
  • unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner
  • unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
  • unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
  • verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
  • video player — VCR: videotape recorder
  • viola player — someone who plays the viola
  • violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
  • vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
  • vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
  • wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
  • yellow avens — herb bennet.
  • yellow fever — an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.
  • yellow river — the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)
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