12-letter words containing e, n, l, i, v
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrelievable — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- unrelievedly — in an unrelieved manner
- unreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- 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)
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vanilla bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanilla-bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- vin de table — the classification given to a French wine that does not meet the requirements of any of the three higher classifications
- vina del mar — a city in central Chile, near Valparaiso: seaside resort.
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vinylbenzene — styrene.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent