12-letter words containing g, e, n, v, i
- unaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- underserving — to offer inadequate services or facilities to.
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- 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.
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- 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.
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- venus figure — Venus (def 3).
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- 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.
- viewing time — the amount of time spent watching television, esp with regard to a particular region
- 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.
- vine-growing — of, relating to, or characterized by the cultivation of grapevines
- vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virgin queen — Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- virgin river — a river in SW Utah, NW Arizona, and SE Nevada, flowing SW and S to the Colorado River at Lake Mead. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- wine vinegar — condiment made of fermented wine
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.