12-letter words containing r, s, v
- dorsiventral — Botany. having distinct dorsal and ventral sides, as most foliage leaves.
- dorsoventral — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- drive sb mad — If you say that someone or something drives you mad, you mean that you find them extremely annoying.
- driving sail — a sail that, when filled, tends to force the hull of a vessel downward (opposed to lifting sail).
- driving seat — In a vehicle such as a car or a bus, the driving seat is the seat where the person who is driving the vehicle sits.
- driving test — the examination that new drivers must take in order to be officially allowed to drive when not under instruction
- drove chisel — a chisel with a broad edge used for dressing stone
- dusty clover — a bush clover, Lespedeza capitata.
- eavesdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of eavesdrop.
- eavesdropper — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- effervescent — effervescing; bubbling.
- effervescing — Present participle of effervesce.
- effervescive — Tending to produce effervescence.
- eigenvectors — Plural form of eigenvector.
- endovascular — Within a blood vessel.
- environments — Plural form of environment.
- erev shabbat — the day before the Sabbath, i.e. Friday
- evaporations — Plural form of evaporation.
- evening star — Venus as seen after sunset
- everlastings — Plural form of everlasting.
- every bit as — equally, just as
- everydayness — (uncountable) The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently.
- eviscerating — Present participle of eviscerate.
- evisceration — A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.
- exasperative — having an exasperating or irritating nature
- exclusive or — (logic) (XOR, EOR) /X or, E or/ A two-input function whose result is true if one input is true and the other is false. The truth table is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F The output is thus true if the inputs are not equal. If one input is false, the other is passed unchanged whereas if one input is true, the other is inverted. In Boolean algebra, exclusive or is often written as a plus in a circle: "⊕". The circle may be omitted suggesting addition modulo two. In digital logic, an exclusive or logic gate is drawn like a normal inclusive or gate but with a curved line across both inputs: {exclusive or gate " />.
- expressively — In an expressive manner.
- expressivity — (uncountable) The quality of being expressive.
- extravasated — Simple past tense and past participle of extravasate.
- extravasates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of extravasate.
- extraversion — Alternative spelling of extroversion.
- extroversion — (psychology) Concern with or an orientation toward others or what is outside oneself; behavior expressing such an orientation; the definitive characteristic of an extrovert.
- extrovertish — Extroverted.
- faits divers — brief news stories, as those typically found in some French newspapers, that are sensational, lurid, etc.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- favouredness — the quality of or extent to which something is favoured
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- feverishness — The quality of being feverish.
- fire service — The fire service is an organization which has the job of putting out fires.
- first violin — one of the principal group of violins in an orchestra
- five fingers — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- flavorlessly — In a flavorless way.
- food service — the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods: The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.
- forest grove — a town in NW Oregon.
- fructivorous — Fruit-eating.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- gallivanters — Plural form of gallivanter.
- game reserve — wildlife park, safari park