12-letter words containing v, s, i
- noncausative — Not causative.
- noncollusive — involving collusion; fraudulently contrived by agreement: a collusive agreement to increase prices.
- noncorrosive — That does not cause corrosion.
- 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
- nonintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- nonobsessive — Not obsessive.
- nonocclusive — occluding or tending to occlude.
- nonoffensive — Not offensive.
- nonpurposive — lacking purpose
- nonselective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- nonsensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- nonsovereign — Not sovereign.
- nonuniversal — Not universal.
- nonvanishing — (mathematics) (of a quantity) that is nonzero at all points in a space.
- nonversation — A meaningless conversation.
- nonvexatious — Not vexatious.
- normotensive — characterized by normal arterial tension or blood pressure.
- nova scotian — a peninsula and province in SE Canada: once a part of the French province of Acadia. 21,068 sq. mi. (54,565 sq. km). Capital: Halifax.
- novelisation — Alternative spelling of novelization.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- oblivescence — the process of forgetting.
- obliviscence — the condition or fact of failing to remember or having failed to remember or of being absent-minded
- observations — Plural form of observation.
- observership — someone or something that observes.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- oncornavirus — any of various RNA viruses that cause tumors in humans and other animals.
- oppressively — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- ovariotomies — Plural form of ovariotomy.
- ovariotomist — a surgeon who performs ovariotomies
- over against — in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.
- over-anxious — excessively anxious.
- over-indexes — (in a nonfiction book, monograph, etc.) a more or less detailed alphabetical listing of names, places, and topics along with the numbers of the pages on which they are mentioned or discussed, usually included in or constituting the back matter.
- over-precise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- over-promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overanalysis — the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis).
- overcautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdiscount — to discount excessively
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- overemphasis — excessive or undue emphasis.
- overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- overexercise — to exercise excessively
- overfineness — excessive fineness
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively