12-letter words containing v, y, a
- conviviality — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- craveability — (especially of a food) having qualities that engender an intense desire for more: All too often, salt, sugar, fat, and “crunch” make a food craveable.
- crazy paving — Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.
- cumulatively — increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions: the cumulative effect of one rejection after another.
- curry favour — to ingratiate oneself, esp with superiors
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cyma reversa — a cyma whose convex part projects beyond the concave part.
- daredeviltry — reckless daring; venturesome boldness.
- death valley — a desert valley in E California and W Nevada: the lowest, hottest, and driest area of the US. Lowest point: 86 m (282 ft) below sea level. Area: about 3885 sq km (1500 sq miles)
- decoratively — In a decorative manner.
- delivery van — a small van used esp for delivery rounds
- denotatively — having power to denote.
- derivability — The condition of being derivable.
- derivatively — derived.
- derogatively — lessening; belittling; derogatory.
- devotionally — In a devotional manner.
- dissuasively — In a dissuasive manner.
- diversionary — tending to divert or distract the attention: diversionary tactics of the guerrilla fighters.
- dolly varden — a woman's costume of the late 19th century, including a flower-trimmed, broad-brimmed hat and a dress consisting of a tight bodice and bouffant panniers in a flower print over a calf-length quilted petticoat.
- driveability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- dubitatively — in a dubitative manner
- dvapara yuga — the third of the Yugas, not as good as the Treta Yuga but better than the Kali Yuga.
- early leaver — a person who leaves something early, esp someone who opts out of a pension scheme before completing all his or her contributions
- entitativity — (psychology) The perception of a group as a single entity, distinct from its members.
- equivalently — In an equivalent manner; equally.
- equivocality — The quality of being equivocal.
- equivocatory — Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
- evanescently — In an evanescent manner.
- evenhandedly — In an evenhanded manner.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- evidentially — In an evidential way; according to evidence.
- evolutionary — Of or relating to evolution.
- evolvability — (biology) The ability of a particular organism to evolve.
- exhaustively — In an exhaustive manner.
- extractively — in an extractive manner
- extravagancy — (archaic, 17-19th centuries) The characteristic of being extravagant.
- family leave — a leave of absence from work in order to have or take care of a baby or to care for an ailing family member.
- fancy diving — diving competition from a springboard into water, the contestants being judged chiefly by their grace and control in executing a specified series of dives in a prescribed manner.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- figuratively — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- galley slave — a person condemned to work at an oar on a galley.
- galvanically — pertaining to or produced by galvanism; producing or caused by an electric current.
- galvanometry — the method or process of determining the strength of electric currents.
- geelvink bay — former (Dutch) name of Sarera Bay.
- generatively — capable of producing or creating.
- generativity — Relating to the ability to create or reproduce.