11-letter words containing g, v
- vigilantism — a member of a vigilance committee.
- vinaigrette — Also, vinegarette. a small, ornamental bottle or box for holding aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, or the like.
- vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
- vinegar eel — a minute nematode worm, Anguillula aceti, common in vinegar, fermenting paste, etc.
- vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
- vinegarette — vinaigrette (def 1).
- 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.
- vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
- vingt-et-un — twenty-one (def 4).
- vintage car — classic antique automobile
- vinyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 3 , derived from ethylene.
- virgin mary — Mary (def 1).
- virgin soil — land uncultivated previously
- virgin wool — wool not previously used in manufacture
- virginalist — Often, virginals. a rectangular harpsichord with the strings stretched parallel to the keyboard, the earlier types placed on a table: popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- virginalled — played on the virginal
- visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
- vital signs — pulse, temperature, breathing, etc.
- vizagapatam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- vlaardingen — a city in the W Netherlands, at the mouth of the Rhine.
- vo language — a type of language that has direct objects following the verb and that tends to have typological traits such as prepositions, prefixes, noun modifiers following nouns, adverbs following verbs, and auxiliary verbs preceding the main verb.
- voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
- voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
- volcanology — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- 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).
- volga tatar — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- 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.
- vote-getter — a candidate or issue whose personality, policies, etc., are considered certain to attract many votes.
- vulcanology — volcanology.
- vulgarities — the state or quality of being vulgar: the vulgarity of his remark.
- wagon vault — barrel vault.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- wave energy — energy obtained by harnessing wave power
- wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
- weeping ivy — a climbing plant, Ficus benjamina, of the fig family, grown as a greenhouse or house plant for its graceful glossy leaves on slender drooping branches
- 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.