12-letter words containing a, v, i
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- video arcade — A video arcade is a place where you can play video games on machines which work when you put money in them.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vidhan sabha — the legislative assembly of any of the states of India
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- village hall — function venue in small community
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- vin de table — the classification given to a French wine that does not meet the requirements of any of the three higher classifications
- vina del mar — a city in central Chile, near Valparaiso: seaside resort.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- 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
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- 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.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visual field — field of vision.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- visualizable — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitalization — to give life to; make vital.
- vitamin pill — a tablet containing a vitamin or vitamins
- vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- vitilitigate — to contend or backbite
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vitriolation — the process of turning something into vitriol