13-letter words containing b, i, v
- unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unsubstantive — a noun.
- unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
- vapor barrier — a layer of material, as plastic film or foil, used to protect installed insulation by retarding the transmission of moisture from the interior environment.
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- variable-rate — providing for changes in the interest rate, adjusted periodically in accordance with prevailing market conditions: a variable-rate mortgage.
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
- veggie burger — A veggie burger is a flat round cake of food made from vegetables or beans. You broil or fry it.
- venetian ball — a small glass ball containing colorful objects or pieces, used chiefly as a paperweight.
- venetian blue — a strong blue similar to cobalt blue.
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbigeration — the condition or instances of repeating the same word or sentence against one's will as a symptom of a psychiatric disorder
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- verifiability — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- vers-libriste — vers-librist.
- vicar of bray — a vicar (Simon Aleyn) appointed to the parish of Bray in Berkshire during Henry VIII's reign who changed his faith to Catholic when Mary I was on the throne and back to Protestant when Elizabeth I succeeded and so retained his living
- victorian box — a tree, Pittosporum undulatum, of Australia, having shiny, wavy-margined, oblong leaves and fragrant clusters of yellowish flowers.
- video library — video and dvd lending service
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- visual binary — a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- volcanic bomb — bomb (def 3).
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- vulnerability — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.