11-letter words containing i, n, o, r, v
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
- uncontrived — obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story.
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unforgiving — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfrivolous — not frivolous
- unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
- unloverlike — not typical of a lover or resembling a lover
- unobserving — not observing
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unreproving — not reprimanding or reproaching
- unsovereign — a group or body of persons or a state having sovereign authority.
- unveracious — (of a person) not veracious; not tending to speak the truth; untruthful
- vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- varsovienne — a Polish dance
- vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
- venographic — of or relating to venography
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
- vermination — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- vibrational — the act of vibrating.
- vienna roll — a yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- 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.
- vinho verde — any of a variety of light, slightly sharp-tasting wines made from early-picked grapes in the Minho region of NW Portugal
- vinificator — a condenser for alcohol vapors escaping from fermenting wine.
- vinton cerf — Vint Cerf
- vinyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 3 , derived from ethylene.
- violinmaker — a person who designs and constructs violins, especially professionally.
- virgin soil — land uncultivated previously
- virgin wool — wool not previously used in manufacture
- vision care — Vision care is the care and treatment of eyes, eyesight conditions, and vision.
- vociferance — vociferant utterance; vociferation.
- voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- 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-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound