12-letter words containing vel
- preventively — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- productively — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- protectively — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- protensively — in the manner of duration
- recreatively — to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
- redemptively — serving to redeem.
- reflectively — that reflects; reflecting.
- repetitively — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- repressively — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- reputatively — according to reckoning; by repute; putatively
- respectively — in precisely the order given; sequentially.
- responsively — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- retractively — in a retractive manner
- revelational — the act of revealing or disclosing; disclosure.
- rooseveltian — of, pertaining to, advocating, or following the principles, views, or policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or of Theodore Roosevelt.
- sb's travels — the journeys someone makes to places a long way from their home
- shovel-nosed — having the head, snout, or beak broad and flat like the blade of a shovel.
- shovel-ready — of or relating to a construction project that is ready to start immediately
- space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
- spirit level — a device for determining true horizontal or vertical directions by the centering of a bubble in a slightly curved glass tube or tubes filled with alcohol or ether.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- street level — ground level
- subjectively — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- submissively — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- subversively — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- successively — following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.
- suggestively — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tautavel man — Arago man.
- the bushveld — an area of low altitude in N South Africa, having scrub vegetation
- the highveld — the high-altitude grassland region of E South Africa
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- travel-weary — tired or exhausted as a result of travelling
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
- unliveliness — the state or quality of being unlively
- van de velde — Adriaen. 1636–72, Dutch painter of landscapes with animals and figures
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- velvet glove — an outwardly gentle or friendly manner used to disguise one's firm or ruthless determination.
- velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.