11-letter words containing g, o, v, i
- reprovingly — to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
- river grove — a town in NE Illinois.
- river rouge — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
- service dog — a dog trained to assist a person with a disability that is not related to vision or hearing.
- silver goal — (in certain competitions) a goal scored in a full half of extra time that is played if a match is drawn. This goal counts as the winner if it is the only goal scored in the full half or full period of extra time
- slow-moving — proceeding with or characterized by slow, sluggish, or leisurely movement or activity.
- sovereignly — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- sovietology — Kremlinology.
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- to give way — If an object that is supporting something gives way, it breaks or collapses, so that it can no longer support that thing.
- unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
- unconniving — not conniving
- unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unobserving — not observing
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- unsovereign — a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.
- vacationing — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vaccinology — the science of vaccine development.
- vagabondize — to behave like a vagabond
- vaginectomy — excision of part or all of the vagina.
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- vexillology — the study of flags.
- victimology — the study of crime victims and the psychological effects of being a victim.
- videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
- videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
- vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
- vinegarroon — a large, nonpoisonous whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, which, when disturbed, emits a volatile fluid having a vinegary odor.
- vinyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 3 , derived from ethylene.
- virgin soil — land uncultivated previously
- virgin wool — wool not previously used in manufacture
- voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
- voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
- volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
- vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- yugoslavian — formerly, a federal republic in S Europe: since 1992 comprised of Serbia and Montenegro; disbanded into independent countries in 2006. 39,449 sq. mi. (102,173 sq. km). Capital: Belgrade.