12-letter words containing av
- a heavy hand — If you say that someone such as the ruler of a country treats people with a heavy hand, you are criticizing them because they are very strict and severe with them.
- agave family — the plant family Agavaceae, characterized by herbaceous or woody plants having rhizomes, a basal cluster of toothed, sword-shaped leaves, and a tall, dense spike of flowers, including the agave, century plant, dracaena, sansevieria, sisal, and yucca.
- aggravatedly — In an aggravated manner.
- aggravations — Plural form of aggravation.
- all---ottava — a direction (8va), placed above or below the staff to indicate that the passage covered is to be played one octave higher or lower respectively.
- alphaviruses — Plural form of alphavirus.
- annual leave — the time a person is allowed to take off work as holiday in any one-year period
- antigraviton — (mostly, scifi) The hypothetical antipartner of a graviton.
- arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
- availability — the quality or condition of being available
- avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
- averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
- aversiveness — the condition of being characterized by aversion
- aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
- avitaminosis — any disease caused by a vitamin deficiency in the diet
- avitaminotic — of or relating to avitaminosis
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- bard of avon — Shakespeare
- basket weave — a weave of fabrics resembling the weave used in basket making
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- beaver fever — an infectious disease caused by drinking water that has been contaminated by wildlife
- beaver state — Oregon (used as a nickname).
- behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
- behaviourism — Behaviourism is the belief held by some psychologists that the only valid method of studying the psychology of people or animals is to observe how they behave.
- bioavailable — the extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the body.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- buenaventura — a major port in W Colombia, on the Pacific coast. Pop: 250 000 (2005 est)
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- caravan site — A caravan site is an area of land where people can stay in a caravan on holiday, or where people live in caravans.
- caravanserai — (in some Eastern countries esp formerly) a large inn enclosing a courtyard providing accommodation for caravans
- carrier wave — a wave of fixed amplitude and frequency that is modulated in amplitude, frequency, or phase in order to carry a signal in radio transmission, etc
- cavaco silva — Aníbal (aˈnibal). born 1939, Portuguese statesman; prime minister (1985–95); president (2006–16)
- cavalierness — a horseman, especially a mounted soldier; knight.
- cave cricket — any of several nocturnal, wingless, cricketlike long-horned grasshoppers of the family Gryllacrididae, characterized by a humpbacked appearance and inhabiting dark moist habitats, as caves, cellars, hollow trees, and the ground under logs and stones.
- cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
- cavity block — a precast concrete block that contains a cavity or cavities
- cavo-relievo — a relief sculpture in which the highest point in the carving is below the level of the original surface
- cesar chavez — Carlos [kahr-lohs;; Spanish kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr loʊs;; Spanish ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1899–1978, Mexican composer and conductor.
- chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
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