12-letter words containing v, s, i
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- false gavial — a SE Asian crocodile, Tomistoma schlegeli, similar to but smaller than the gavial
- 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.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- five nations — (formerly) a confederacy of North American Indian peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
- flying visit — A flying visit is a visit that only lasts a very short time.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
- ganges river — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- generativist — a person who follows or promotes the theories of generative grammar.
- give offense — to offend; anger, insult, etc.
- 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.
- give sb hell — If you say that something is giving you hell, you are emphasizing that it is causing you a lot of trouble or pain.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- gloversville — a city in E New York.
- governorship — the duties, term in office, etc., of a governor.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- gravediggers — Plural form of gravedigger.
- gravitropism — (biology, botany) a plant's ability to change its growth in response to gravity.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- griseofulvin — an antibiotic, C 17 H 17 ClO 6 , obtained from a species of Penicillium, used in the treatment of ringworm and other fungous infections of the skin.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- gustavus iii — 1746–92, king of Sweden 1771–92: economic and legal reformer.
- gypsy driver — the driver of a gypsy cab
- halls of ivy — an institution of higher learning; university or college; the academic world.
- harvest mite — chigger (def 1).
- harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
- harvest time — season when crops are gathered
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
- heavenliness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being heavenly.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- heroic verse — a form of verse adapted to the treatment of heroic or exalted themes: in classical poetry, dactylic hexameter; in English and German, iambic pentameter; and in French, the Alexandrine. An example of heroic verse is Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing!
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- hiv positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hiv-positive — (of a person) diagnosed by a test as being infected with HIV.
- hoovervilles — a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- hopkinsville — a city in S Kentucky.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.