12-letter words containing a, d, v, n, t
- five-and-ten — Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uh n-ten-sent] /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/ (Show IPA), five-and-dime [fahyv-uh n-dahym] /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/ (Show IPA), dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
- gravity wind — a light wind directed downslope, occurring at night because of the cooling and densification of the air near the ground.
- have need to — to be compelled or required to; must
- idiot savant — a mentally defective person with an exceptional skill or talent in a special field, as a highly developed ability to play music or to solve complex mathematical problems mentally at great speed.
- inadvertence — the quality or condition of being inadvertent; heedlessness.
- inadvertency — inadvertence.
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- individuated — Simple past tense and past participle of individuate.
- individuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individuate.
- invalidating — Present participle of invalidate.
- invalidation — to render invalid; discredit.
- investigated — Simple past tense and past participle of investigate.
- landgraviate — the office, jurisdiction, or territory of a landgrave.
- living death — a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.
- maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
- misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- non-advocate — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- nonactivated — not activated,
- nonaddictive — producing or tending to cause addiction: an addictive drug.
- of even date — of the same or today's date
- old covenant — the covenant between God and the ancient Israelites, based on the Mosaic Law.
- orthovanadic — relating to orthovanadates
- overabundant — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- overdominant — excessively dominant
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- 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
- peradventure — chance, doubt, or uncertainty.
- postdiluvian — existing or occurring after the Biblical Flood.
- privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- privatdozent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- quadrivalent — having a valence of four; tetravalent.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- the devonian — the Devonian period or rock system
- to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unalleviated — to make easier to endure; lessen; mitigate: to alleviate sorrow; to alleviate pain.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- uncultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- unvaccinated — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unvindicated — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- vacationland — an area having recreational facilities, historic or picturesque sights, etc., that attract vacationists.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)