12-letter words containing vo
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- get involved — play a part
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- graminivores — Plural form of graminivore.
- grievousness — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- haute-savoie — a department in E France. 1775 sq. mi. (4595 sq. km). Capital: Annecy.
- herbivourous — Misspelling of herbivorous.
- high voltage — high-power electricity
- high-voltage — operating on or powered by high voltage: a high-voltage generator.
- hypervolemia — (medicine) An abnormal increase in the volume of blood circulating through the body.
- hypovolaemia — Alternative form of hypovolemia.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- in favour of — If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.
- insectivores — Plural form of insectivore.
- interinvolve — to involve mutually or reciprocally
- intervocalic — (usually of a consonant) immediately following a vowel and preceding a vowel, as the v in cover.
- invocational — Of or relating to an act of invocation.
- involutional — of, relating to, or characteristic of involutional melancholia: involutional symptoms.
- involvedness — very intricate or complex: an involved reply.
- involvements — Plural form of involvement.
- isoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone.
- 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).
- 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-.
- line voltage — the voltage supplied by a power line, measured at the point of use.
- livor mortis — Medicine/Medical. a bluish-purple discoloration of the skin on the dependent parts of a dead human body, caused by hypostasis, or accumulation of blood due to the action of gravity.
- lord provost — the chief magistrate of any of certain large cities in Scotland.
- 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.
- middle voice — the voice or form used when the subject of a verb performs an action on itself (often the reflexive form)
- molar volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a gas, liquid, or solid.
- multi-voiced — having a voice of a specified kind (usually used in combination): shrill-voiced.
- multi-volume — consisting of or encompassing several volumes: a multivolume encyclopedia.
- multivoltine — producing several broods in one year, as certain silkworm moths; polyvoltine.
- neoflavonoid — (organic chemistry) Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone.
- non-advocacy — the act of pleading for, supporting, or recommending; active espousal: He was known for his advocacy of states' rights.
- non-advocate — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- non-voidable — capable of being nullified or invalidated.
- non-volatile — non-volatile storage
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- nonrevocable — Not revocable.
- nonvoluntary — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- novokuznetsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in central Asia: an industrial center is located here because of coal deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin.
- novomoskovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- nuevo laredo — a city in NE Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite Laredo, Texas.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old slavonic — Old Church Slavonic.