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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
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