11-letter words containing a, g, v
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- vascongadas — Basque Country
- vellicating — to pluck; twitch.
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- ventilating — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- verbigerate — to talk or chat
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- vestigially — of, relating to, or of the nature of a vestige: a vestigial tail.
- victuallage — supplies or food; victuals
- victualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
- videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- vigilantism — a member of a vigilance committee.
- vinaigrette — Also, vinegarette. a small, ornamental bottle or box for holding aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, or the like.
- vinegar eel — a minute nematode worm, Anguillula aceti, common in vinegar, fermenting paste, etc.
- vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
- vinegarette — vinaigrette (def 1).
- vinegarroon — a large, nonpoisonous whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, which, when disturbed, emits a volatile fluid having a vinegary odor.
- vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
- vintage car — classic antique automobile
- virgin mary — Mary (def 1).
- virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- virginalled — played on the virginal
- visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
- vital signs — pulse, temperature, breathing, etc.
- vizagapatam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- vlaardingen — a city in the W Netherlands, at the mouth of the Rhine.
- vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
- voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
- volcanology — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
- volga tatar — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- vulcanology — volcanology.
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- wave energy — energy obtained by harnessing wave power
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- yugoslavian — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.