12-letter words containing v, o, r, t, e
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- export drive — a united effort to increase a country's exports
- exprobrative — signifying reproach, reproachful
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- flavoprotein — an enzyme, containing riboflavin and linked chemically with a protein, active in the oxidation of foods in animal cells.
- forest grove — a town in NW Oregon.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fuel poverty — the state of being unable to afford to heat one's home adequately
- galvanometer — an instrument for detecting the existence of small electric currents and determining their strength.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- give over to — If something is given over or given up to a particular use, it is used entirely for that purpose.
- give rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- give rise to — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- governorates — Plural form of governorate.
- gravitometer — an instrument that measures specific gravities
- growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- haricot vert — green bean.
- harvest home — the bringing home of the harvest.
- harvest moon — the moon at and about the period of fullness that is nearest to the autumnal equinox.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- ibota privet — a Japanese spreading shrub, Ligustrum obtusifolium, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and nodding white flower clusters.
- il trovatore — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- improvements — Plural form of improvement.
- inconversant — Not conversant or acquainted (with something); unfamiliar.
- incorruptive — incorruptible; not tending to be corrupted
- innervations — Plural form of innervation.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interconvert — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- intervillous — Between the villi.
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- intraveneous — Misspelling of intravenous.
- introductive — serving or used to introduce; preliminary; beginning: an introductory course; an introductory paragraph.
- introversion — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introversive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- introverting — a shy person.
- introvertish — Introverted.
- introvertive — the act of introverting or the state of being introverted.
- inventioneer — (rare) inventor.