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13-letter words containing c, a, v, i, r

  • vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
  • venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
  • veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
  • vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
  • vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
  • vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
  • vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
  • vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
  • vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
  • versification — the act of versifying.
  • vertical file — a collection of pamphlets, pictures, clippings, or other materials stored upright, as in a filing cabinet or cabinets.
  • verticillated — whorled
  • vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • 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
  • vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
  • vice-chairman — a member of a committee, board, group, etc., designated as immediately subordinate to a chairman and serving as such in the latter's absence; a person who acts for and assists a chairman.
  • victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
  • victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
  • victorian box — a tree, Pittosporum undulatum, of Australia, having shiny, wavy-margined, oblong leaves and fragrant clusters of yellowish flowers.
  • victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
  • vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
  • virginia city — a mining town in W Nevada: famous for the discovery of the rich Comstock silver lode 1859.
  • virginiamycin — any of various antibacterial substances derived from the bacterium Streptomyces virginiae, used in antibiotics and in animal feed as a growth stimulant.
  • virgo intacta — a girl or woman whose hymen has not been broken
  • virologically — in a manner relating to virology
  • visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
  • visiting card — calling card (def 1).
  • visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
  • vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
  • vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
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