12-letter words containing v, o, l
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- non-elective — pertaining to the principle of electing to an office, position, etc.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- non-vascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- non-violence — absence or lack of violence; state or condition of avoiding violence.
- non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- non-volatile — non-volatile storage
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- noncivilized — Not civilized.
- noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
- nonexclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
- nonexplosive — tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonremovable — that may be removed.
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nontrivially — In a nontrivial manner.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvegetable — Not of or pertaining to vegetables.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonviability — The state or condition of being nonviable; impracticality.
- nonviolently — In a nonviolent manner.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- normal curve — a bell-shaped curve showing a particular distribution of probability over the values of a random variable. Also called Gaussian curve, probability curve.
- north kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 329 sq km (127 sq miles)
- note verbale — a diplomatic communication prepared in the third person and unsigned: less formal than a note but more formal than an aide-mémoire.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novelization — The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
- novell, inc. — (company, networking) A software development company specialising in networking and workgroup applications. The company has diversified in recent years, with the acquisition of several mainstream applications, including Wordperfect and Quattro Pro. Other products include UnixWare, AppWare, Personal NetWare, Groupwise and Novell Dos 7. (21 Sept 1995)
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- object value — (jargon) In industrial design, a measure of consumers' immediate desire for an object, even before they know or understand what it does. "Gassee may be nuts, but at least the BeBox has great object value."
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- 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 believer — Raskolnik.
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- 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.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- on the level — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- 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.