12-letter words containing v, r, y
- route survey — a survey for determining the route, grades, etc., of a railroad, highway, or power line.
- royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
- scurvy grass — a plant, Cochlearia officinalis, of the mustard family, purported to be a remedy for scurvy.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- serviceberry — the fruit of any service tree.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- severability — capability of being separated, as of a clause in an agreement
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- silver belly — a freshwater eel
- silver jenny — a silvery mojarra, Eucinostomus gula, inhabiting warm waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, along sandy shores.
- skivvy-shirt — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- subserviency — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- supravitally — in a supravital manner
- sylvester ii — (Gerbert) died 1003, French ecclesiastic: pope 999–1003.
- sylviculture — the cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
- the varletry — rabble; mob
- thirty-seven — a cardinal number, 30 plus 7.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transitivity — verb: requiring a direct object
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- transylvania — a region and former province in central Romania: formerly part of Hungary. 24,027 sq. mi. (62,230 sq. km).
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- undeservedly — according to desert; justly; rightly.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unrelievedly — in an unrelieved manner
- unreservedly — not restricted; without reservation; full; entire; unqualified: unreserved approval.
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valley fever — coccidioidomycosis.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vascular ray — a radiate band of parenchyma in the secondary xylem extending into the secondary phloem of the stems of certain vascular plants, formed by the cambium and serving for the storage of food and the conduction of nutriments.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels