12-letter words containing a, n, t, e, v, r
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
- travel agent — a person who owns, operates, or works for a travel agency.
- trivial name — a common name or vernacular name, as of a plant or animal
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- van devanter — Willis, 1859–1941, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1910–37.
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- venetian red — a red pigment, originally prepared from a natural oxide of iron, now usually made by calcining a mixture of lime and ferrous sulfate.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weather-vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.