12-letter words containing c, e, v
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vexillologic — of or relating to vexillology
- 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.
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- vice-premier — a person who deputizes for a premier and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- vicissitudes — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- 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 jockey — a person who plays, announces, and comments on videocassette recordings, as on a music video broadcast or at a discotheque.
- 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 screen — screen (def 5).
- video-record — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- voltaic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- 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.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- wire service — agency that sends news stories
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.