12-letter words containing v, r, i, e
- motor-driven — propelled or made to function by means of a motor
- movie camera — motion-picture camera
- movie rating — a classification of a film as according to the age of viewers thought suitable to see it, and which can differ according to the level in the film of violent content, sexual content, etc
- multiservice — involving two or more of the armed services
- multivariate — (of a combined distribution) having more than one variate or variable.
- multiversity — a university with several campuses, each of which has many schools, divisions, etc.
- nemorivagant — Lb rare wandering in the woods.
- nerve ending — Your nerve endings are the millions of points on the surface of your body and inside it which send messages to your brain when you feel sensations such as heat, cold, and pain.
- neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
- non-curative — serving to cure or heal; pertaining to curing or remedial treatment; remedial.
- 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-reactive — tending to react.
- non-variable — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- non-virulent — actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite.
- nonassertive — Not assertive.
- nonbelievers — Plural form of nonbeliever.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- nondirective — Not directive.
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonnarrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- nonnormative — Not normative.
- nonnutritive — serving to nourish; providing nutriment; nutritious.
- nonoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonreflexive — (of a relation) neither reflexive nor irreflexive; holding between some members of its domain and themselves, and failing to hold between others
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvehicular — Not vehicular.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvitrified — Not converted into glass.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- obliterative — Tending or serving to obliterate.
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- old believer — Raskolnik.
- 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.
- olive branch — a branch of the olive tree as an emblem of peace.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- open verdict — law: coroner's jury finding
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- orange-river — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- order-driven — denoting an electronic market system, esp for stock exchanges, in which prices are determined by the publication of orders to buy or sell
- ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-excited — If you say that someone is over-excited, you mean that they are more excited than you think is desirable.
- over-explain — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.