12-letter words containing c, e, v
- unperceptive — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unsubjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- unsuccessive — not successive; not following or coming in a sequence; not involving succession
- unvaccinated — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- unvindicated — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- vacuum gauge — a device for measuring pressures below atmospheric pressure in the receiver of an air pump, in steam condensers, and the like.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vacuum valve — vacuum tube
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- 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.
- valle-inclán — Rámon María del (raˈmɔn maˈria del). 1866–1936, Spanish novelist and dramatist. His works include the novel Tirano Banderas (1926) and the satirical play Don Friolera's Horns (1925)
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- 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)
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- 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.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- 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.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- venepuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- ventana cave — a Paleo-Indian archaeological site near Tucson, Arizona.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- 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.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.