12-letter words containing a, v, i, g
- supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
- survival bag — a large plastic bag carried by climbers for use in an emergency as protection against exposure
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- thanksgiving — the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
- toga virilis — the white toga assumed by boys in ancient Rome at the end of their 14th year.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- travel light — If you travel light, you travel without taking much luggage.
- unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- unmotivating — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- village hall — function venue in small community
- vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinyasa yoga — a style of yoga in which breathing exercises are used to synchronize fluid transitions through a fixed sequence of poses
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virginalling — playing as on the virginal
- virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitilitigate — to contend or backbite
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volcanologic — relating to vulcanology
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.