12-letter words containing vo
- omnivorously — eating both animal and plant foods.
- out of favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
- overinvolved — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- ovolactarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- pax vobiscum — peace be with you
- petrozavodsk — a city in NW Russia, capital of the Karelian Autonomous Republic, on Lake Onega: developed around ironworks established by Peter the Great in 1703; university (1940). Pop: 265 000 (2005 est)
- photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
- polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
- popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
- protest vote — a ballot cast for a candidate with a minimal chance of winning, to register dislike for the other candidates.
- radicivorous — feeding on the roots of plants
- rendezvouses — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- rough-voiced — having a harsh or grating voice: a rough-voiced barker.
- royal octavo — a book size, 61⁄4 by 10 inches
- sal volatile — an aromatic alcoholic solution of ammonium carbonate, the chief ingredient in smelling salts.
- sales volume — quantity of goods sold
- sanguivorous — feeding on blood, as a bat or insect.
- savoir faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- savoir-faire — knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.
- savoir-vivre — knowledge of the world and the ways or usages of polite society.
- self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-evolved — to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- seminivorous — feeding on seeds: seminivorous birds.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- servocontrol — control by means of a servomechanism.
- survivorship — the state of being a survivor.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- trevor-roper — Hugh (Redwald) [red-wawld] /ˈrɛd wɔld/ (Show IPA), 1914–2003, British historian.
- triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- vocationally — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- volatile oil — a distilled oil, especially one obtained from plant tissue, as distinguished from glyceride oils by their volatility and failure to saponify.
- volcanic arc — a curving chain of active volcanoes formed above a subduction zone and adjacent to a convergent plate boundary.