12-letter words containing a, v, r, i, c, e
- scrieveboard — the drawing board of a shipbuilder
- scrive board — a floorlike construction on which the lines of a vessel can be drawn or scribed at full size.
- security van — an armoured van used to transport money or other valuables
- service area — motorway facilities
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service game — a game in which a particular tennis player is the one who serves
- service mark — a proprietary term, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, American Express, or Planned Parenthood, that is registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. Abbreviation: SM.
- service road — frontage road.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- surveillance — a watch kept over a person, group, etc., especially over a suspect, prisoner, or the like: The suspects were under police surveillance.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tsesarevitch — (in Russian history) the eldest son of a tsar or his heir apparent
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- unattractive — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- uncreativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- underachieve — to perform, especially academically, below the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
- van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- 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 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
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- 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.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.