9-letter words containing e, v, c
- uncoveted — to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
- undeceive — to free from deception, fallacy, or mistake.
- unvouched — to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
- vacaville — a city in central California.
- vaccinate — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
- vacuolate — having a vacuole or vacuoles.
- vacuumize — to create a vacuum in.
- valencies — valence.
- vallecula — a furrow or depression.
- van vleck — John H(asbrouck) [haz-broo k] /ˈhæz brʊk/ (Show IPA), 1899–1980, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1977.
- vancouver — George, 1758–98, English explorer.
- varicella — chickenpox.
- variscite — a secondary mineral, hydrated phosphate of aluminum, Al(PO 4)⋅2H 2 O, occurring mainly as massive, bluish-green nodules: sometimes used as a gem.
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- vaxectomy — (jargon) /vak-sek't*-mee/ (By analogy with "vasectomy") Removal of a VAX. DEC's Microvaxen, especially, are much slower than newer RISC-based workstations such as the SPARC. Thus, if one knows one has a replacement coming, VAX removal can be cause for celebration.
- veal calf — a calf, esp one bred for eating
- vectorial — 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.
- vectoring — the act of vectoring or guiding aircraft using vectors
- vectorize — (of computing graphics) to convert from a bitmap representation to a vector representation
- vecturist — a person who collects transportation tokens as a hobby.
- vehemence — the quality of being vehement; ardor; fervor.
- vehicular — of, relating to, or for vehicles: a vehicular tunnel.
- vellicate — to pluck; twitch.
- vena cava — either of two large veins discharging blood into the right atrium of the heart, one (superior vena cava or precava) conveying blood from the head, chest, and upper extremities and the other (inferior vena cava or postcava) conveying blood from all parts below the diaphragm.
- vengeance — infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to vengeance?
- ventiduct — an air pipe or passage for ventilation
- ventifact — a pebble or cobble that has been faceted, grooved, and polished by the erosive action of wind-driven sand.
- ventricle — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
- veracious — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- verbicide — the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word.
- veridical — truthful; veracious.
- vermicide — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
- vermicule — a small, wormlike structure.
- verrucose — studded with wartlike protuberances or elevations.
- verrucous — of, pertaining to, marked by, or like a wart or warts.
- verticity — the ability to turn
- very much — greatly
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- vetchling — any of several slender, climbing plants belonging to the genus Lathyrus, of the legume family, similar to the vetch but having a winged or angular stem, as L. palustris, of North America.
- vicariate — the office or authority of a vicar.
- vice girl — a woman who works as a prostitute
- vice ring — a group of people involved in immoral illegal activities, especially pornography, prostitution, or drugs
- vicegeral — of or relating to a vicegerent or a vicegerent's position.
- vicennial — of or for 20 years.
- viceregal — of or relating to a viceroy.
- vicereine — the wife of a viceroy.
- vicontiel — pertaining to the sheriff or viscount.
- victimise — to make a victim of.
- victimize — to make a victim of.