11-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- undeserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- undiverting — not diverting; not amusing
- undriveable — unable to be driven
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
- universally — in a universal manner; in every instance or place; without exception.
- unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
- unnervingly — in a manner that makes one feel worried or uncomfortable
- unobserving — not observing
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unperceived — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unquivering — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- unravelling — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
- unreceptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- unreprieved — not reprieved or eased
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- unretentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- unretrieved — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unrevealing — to make known; disclose; divulge: to reveal a secret.
- unrevivable — to activate, set in motion, or take up again; renew: to revive old feuds.
- unsovereign — a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.
- unvarnished — plain; clear; straightforward; without vagueness or subterfuge; frank: the unvarnished truth.
- unveracious — (of a person) not veracious; not tending to speak the truth; untruthful
- unversed in — not knowledgeable about, acquainted with, or skilled in
- unvitrified — not vitrified; that has not been vitrified
- unvulgarize — to make unvulgar; to raise from the level of the common and ordinary; to refine; to elevate
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- valley girl — an affluent young Californian woman, typically considered as being excessively concerned with physical appearance and social status
- valve train — A valve train is the total mechanism that causes the valves of an engine to lift and close.
- vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
- vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
- varicellate — having small varices, as certain shells.
- varicelloid — resembling varicella.
- varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
- varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- varsovienne — a Polish dance
- vascularize — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
- vat receipt — a receipt showing details of VAT paid on a transaction, together with the VAT number
- vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- vendemiaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the first month of the year, extending from September 22 to October 21.
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation