12-letter words containing e, v, r, y
- unreservedly — not restricted; without reservation; full; entire; unqualified: unreserved approval.
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valley fever — coccidioidomycosis.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- 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.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- 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.
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- 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
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- yarrow-river — a river in SE Scotland, flowing into the Tweed. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- yellow fever — an acute, often fatal, infectious febrile disease of warm climates, caused by an RNA virus transmitted by a mosquito, especially Aedes aegypti, and characterized by liver damage and jaundice.
- yellow river — the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.