11-letter words containing i, n, g, v
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- ventilating — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- venturingly — in a venturing manner
- vereeniging — a city in the S Transvaal, in NE Republic of South Africa, S of Johannesburg.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- vice-regent — a deputy regent; a person who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.
- vicegerency — the position, government, or office of a vicegerent.
- victualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- 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).
- 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.
- vlaardingen — a city in the W Netherlands, at the mouth of the Rhine.
- voguishness — the state or condition of being voguish
- voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
- 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.
- waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
- 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
- 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.