11-letter words containing e, t, i, o, l
- unipetalous — having only one petal.
- unit holder — an investor in a unit trust fund
- unlightsome — without light; dark
- unobligated — to bind or oblige morally or legally: to obligate oneself to purchase a building.
- unsolicited — given or supplied without being requested or asked for: unsolicited advice.
- untimeously — untimely
- valediction — an act of bidding farewell or taking leave.
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- 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.
- 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
- ventilation — the act of ventilating.
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- vexillation — a group of soldiers in the Roman army, usually comprising a thousand men
- vibratoless — without vibrato
- viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
- victorville — a city in SE California.
- victoryless — without victory
- violet iris — an iris, Iris verna, of the eastern U.S., having solitary, violet-blue flowers.
- violet wood — kingwood.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- volsteadism — the policy of prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- volume unit — a logarithmic unit used to measure the magnitude of a sound wave.
- voluntative — a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb
- vowel point — any of a group of auxiliary symbols, as small lines and dots, placed above or below consonant symbols to indicate vowels in a writing system, as that of Hebrew or Arabic, in which vowels are otherwise not written.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- weight loss — slimming
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
- white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- world title — the winner's position in an international competition
- wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
- xenoblastic — a crystal that forms in metamorphic rock and gets its outline from neighboring crystals.
- xenoplastic — involving distantly related individuals
- yellowtails — Plural form of yellowtail.
- yield point — the stress at which an elastic material under increasing stress ceases to behave elastically; under conditions of tensile strength the elongation is no longer proportional to the increase in stress
- zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite