12-Letter Words Containing: I,V,A,I,S,T

• a short prayer of thanks before a meal

• fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag

• affirming or giving assent

• a reply of affirmation

• expecting the best

• expressing or manifesting praise or approval

• a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')

• of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind

• fanatically patriotic

• (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body

• in an appositive manner