12-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r
- gravity feed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- great divide — the continental divide of North America; the Rocky Mountains.
- gustave dore — (Paul) Gustave [pawl gy-stav] /pɔl güˈstav/ (Show IPA), 1832?–83, French painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
- half-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- half-starved — to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
- hand-deliver — to deliver in person or by messenger.
- hard-favored — South Midland U.S. (of a person) hard-featured.
- heavyhearted — Sad.
- hepadnavirus — Any member of the virus family Hepadnaviridae, capable of causing liver infections in humans and animals.
- ill-favoured — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indian giver — a person who gives a gift and then takes it back.
- jordan curve — simple closed curve.
- jordan river — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- kavir desert — Dasht-e-Kavir.
- la verendrye — Pierre Gaultier de Varenne [French pyer goh-tyey duh va-ren] /French pyɛr goʊˈtyeɪ də vaˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- landgravines — Plural form of landgravine.
- lavender bag — a small fabric bag filled with dried lavender flowers and placed amongst clothes or linen to scent them
- liverpudlian — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England, on the Mersey estuary.
- louver board — one of a series of overlapping, sloping boards used as louvers in an opening, so arranged as to admit air but to exclude rain or cut off visibility from the outside.
- madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
- maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- markov model — (probability, simulation) A model or simulation based on Markov chains.
- median nerve — a nerve that carries impulses between a part of the body and the central nervous system
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- non-drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- 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.
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overachieved — Simple past tense and past participle of overachieve.
- overanalyzed — Simple past tense and past participle of overanalyze.
- overbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of overbalance.
- overdecorate — To decorate or embellish to an excessive degree.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overdiagnose — (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overdramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- overeducated — Having been educated to a higher academic level than is necessary.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- overmannered — excessively mannered
- overmedicate — to treat with medicine or medicaments.
- overpedalled — relating to overpedalling
- overpersuade — to persuade (a person) against his or her inclination or intention: By threats and taunts they had overpersuaded him to steal the car.
- oversedation — the calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, especially by the administration of a drug.
- overstrained — exerted, taxed, or used to an excessive extent