12-letter words containing a, l, v
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- arrival date — Your arrival date is the date that you are expected to come to a hotel or other location.
- arrival time — the time when someone or something arrives, arrived, or will arrive
- articulative — relating to articulation
- assaultively — in an assaultive manner
- assimilative — of or causing assimilation; assimilating
- assumptively — taken for granted.
- at eye level — at the height of somebody's eyes
- at intervals — If something happens at intervals, it happens several times with gaps or pauses in between.
- attractively — In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
- audio-visual — Audio-visual equipment and materials involve both recorded sound and pictures.
- audiovisuals — Plural form of audiovisual.
- autumn olive — a spiny shrub (Elaeagnus umbellata) of the oleaster family, having leaves covered with silvery or brown scales
- availability — the quality or condition of being available
- avariciously — characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
- avascularity — the condition of having few blood vessels or of being without blood vessels
- average life — the average time that an unstable particle or nucleus survives before it decays.
- aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
- avoidability — The possibility of avoiding; the state or condition of being avoidable.
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- avuncularity — the condition of being an uncle
- axis of evil — North Korea, Iraq, and Iran when considered together as a perceived threat to world stability
- baklava code — (humour, programming) Code with too many layers. Also known as Lasagne Code.
- balloon vine — a tropical tendril-climbing sapindaceous plant, Cardiospermum halicacabum, cultivated for its ornamental balloon-like seed capsules
- balto-slavic — the Baltic and Slavic languages, when considered as constituting a subfamily within the Indo-European family of languages: the Baltic and Slavic branches are now generally considered by scholars as independently derived from Indo-European
- barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
- bartlesville — a city in NE Oklahoma.
- basic jovial — (language) A subset of JOVIAL written ca. 1965.
- basilic vein — a large vein situated on the inner side of the arm
- beaver cloth — beaver1 (def 8).
- beaver falls — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- behaviorally — manner of behaving or acting.
- bevel square — a woodworker's square with an adjustable arm that can be set to mark out an angle or to check the slope of a surface
- bib overalls — overall (def 3a).
- bioavailable — the extent to which a nutrient or medication can be used by the body.
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- black velvet — a mixture of stout and champagne in equal proportions
- block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
- blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- bougainville — an island in the W Pacific, in Papua New Guinea: the largest of the Solomon Islands: unilaterally declared independence in 1990; occupied by government troops in 1992, and granted autonomy in 2001. Chief town: Kieta. Area: 10 049 sq km (3880 sq miles)
- boulevardier — (originally in Paris) a fashionable man, esp one who frequents public places
- broad-leaved — denoting trees other than conifers, most of which have broad rather than needle-shaped leaves
- c'est la vie — that's life
- cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
- calvin cycle — a series of reactions, occurring during photosynthesis, in which glucose is synthesized from carbon dioxide
- cantilevered — A cantilevered structure is constructed using cantilevers.
- capacitively — (physics, electronics) In relation to or in terms of capacitance.
- capital levy — a tax on capital or property as contrasted with a tax on income
- carbon value — an empirical measurement of the tendency of a lubricant to form carbon when in use