12-letter words containing v, e
- air observer — observer (def 3).
- alexander iv — (Rinaldo Conti) died 1261, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1254–61.
- alexander vi — original name Rodrigo Borgia. 1431–1503, pope (1492–1503): noted for his extravagance and immorality as well as for his patronage of the arts; father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, with whom he is said to have committed incest
- alimentative — nourishing; nutritive.
- all for love — a drama in blank verse (1678) by Dryden.
- alliterative — Alliterative means relating to or connected with alliteration.
- allusiveness — having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.
- alphaviruses — Plural form of alphavirus.
- altar server — server (def 5).
- alternatives — a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
- alto-relievo — high relief
- alto-rilievo — alto-relievo
- alveolectomy — The surgical reshaping of the alveolar ridge to facilitate dental prosthesis.
- alveopalatal — articulated with the blade or front of the tongue approaching or touching the front of the hard palate near its junction with the alveolar ridge; having a primary palatal articulation and a secondary alveolar articulation.
- alyce clover — a tropical perennial clover (Alysicarpus vaginalis) sometimes used as a cover crop and for fodder
- amalgamative — of or relating to amalgamation
- amazon river — a river in N South America, flowing E from the Peruvian Andes through N Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean: the largest river in the world in volume of water carried. 3900 miles (6280 km) long.
- ambivalently — in an ambivalent manner
- ameliorative — Able to repair or ameliorate.
- amenhotep iv — died 1357? b.c, king of Egypt 1375?–1357?: reformer of ancient Egyptian religion (son of Amenhotep III).
- american ivy — a vitaceous woody vine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of North America, having tendrils with adhesive tips, bluish-black berry-like fruits, and compound leaves that turn red in autumn: widely planted for ornament
- anchovy pear — a Jamaican tree, Grias cauliflora, bearing edible fruits that taste like the mango: family Lecythidaceae
- animadverted — Simple past tense and past participle of animadvert.
- animadverter — a person who expresses his or her opinion without fear of criticism or rebuke
- animal lover — a person who feels fondness for animals
- annihilative — Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- annual leave — the time a person is allowed to take off work as holiday in any one-year period
- antediluvial — Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood (or similar deluge myth).
- antediluvian — Antediluvian things are old or old-fashioned.
- anticipative — inclined to anticipate; of or full of anticipation
- anticreative — opposed to originality of thought or the display of imagination
- antinovelist — a writer of antinovels
- antitakeover — opposed to or acting against a takeover
- antitussives — Plural form of antitussive.
- antiviolence — opposed to or acting against violence in society
- aortic valve — a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.
- appellatives — Plural form of appellative.
- apperceiving — Present participle of apperceive.
- apperceptive — conscious perception.
- applausively — in an applausive manner
- apple valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
- 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.
- appreciative — An appreciative reaction or comment shows the enjoyment that you are getting from something.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- archive file — a single computer file that contains one or more files that have been compressed
- archive site — (networking) (Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. Some well-known archive sites included Imperial College, UK, UUNET, USA, GNU archive site. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.
- arenaviruses — Plural form of arenavirus.
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- 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