12-letter words containing ev
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- for evermore — forever; always
- geneva bands — a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
- geneva cross — a red Greek cross on a white background, displayed to distinguish ambulances, hospitals, and persons belonging to the Red Cross Society.
- good evening — greeting
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- ground level — ground state.
- hectic fever — a fever associated with tuberculosis
- hever castle — a Tudor mansion near Edenbridge in Kent: home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage; Italian garden added in the 20th century by the Astor family
- hiram revels — Hiram Rhoades [rohdz] /roʊdz/ (Show IPA), 1822–1901, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician: first black senator 1870–71.
- in any event — whatever the situation
- in the event — You say in the event after you have been discussing what could have happened in a particular situation, in order to indicate that you are now describing what actually did happen.
- input device — a peripheral device, as a keyboard or stylus, used to enter data into a computer for processing.
- irrelevances — Plural form of irrelevance.
- irrelevantly — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- irrelievable — incapable of being relieved.
- irreverently — not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence; deficient in veneration or respect: an irreverent reply.
- irreversible — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irreversibly — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- jungle fever — a severe variety of malarial fever occurring in the East Indies and the tropics.
- katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
- koussevitzky — Serge [sairzh] /sɛərʒ/ (Show IPA), (Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky) 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.
- lawn sleeves — (used with a plural verb) the sleeves of lawn forming part of the dress of an Anglican bishop.
- levalloisian — of, relating to, or characteristic of a distinctive late Lower and Middle Paleolithic method of preparing a stone core so that preformed thin, oval or triangular flakes with sharp edges could be struck from it.
- level-headed — having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.
- leveling rod — rod (def 19).
- lever-action — (of a rifle) having a lever action.
- levi strauss — David Friedrich [dah-veet free-drikh] /ˈdɑ vit ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1808–74, German theologian, philosopher, and author.
- levi-strauss — Claude, 1908–2009, French anthropologist and educator, born in Belgium: founder of structural anthropology.
- levitational — Relating to levitation.
- levorotation — Rotation in an anticlockwise direction, especially such rotation of the plane of polarized light.
- levorotatory — turning to the left, as the rotation to the left of the plane of polarization of light in certain crystals and compounds. Symbol: l-.
- live-forever — a widely cultivated succulent plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having fleshy, coarsely toothed leaves and flat clusters of purplish flowers.
- long-sleeved — having long sleeves
- loretteville — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Quebec.
- make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
- malevolently — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- mediaevalism — Alternative spelling of medievalism.
- medievalisms — Plural form of medievalism.
- medievalists — Plural form of medievalist.
- middle-level — occurring at or having a middle or intermediate position or status: middle-level management.
- millisievert — (physics) A unit of ionizing radiation equal to 10-3 sieverts.
- misbelieving — Present participle of misbelieve.
- mischievious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
- multileveled — having different levels or planes: a multilevel stage set.
- negev desert — the desert region of S Israel
- never-ending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.
- nevertheless — nonetheless; notwithstanding; however; in spite of that: a small but nevertheless important change.