12-letter words containing c, o, v, a, r
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vicar choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- 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
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanic arc — a curving chain of active volcanoes formed above a subduction zone and adjacent to a convergent plate boundary.
- 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.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.