11-letter words containing i, v, t, r
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- unit vector — a vector having a length of one unit.
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- unreceptive — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
- unretentive — tending or serving to retain something.
- unretrieved — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- unvitrified — not vitrified; that has not been vitrified
- vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
- vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- valve train — A valve train is the total mechanism that causes the valves of an engine to lift and close.
- vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
- vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
- vanity fair — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity.
- vapor trail — contrail.
- vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
- variability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- varicellate — having small varices, as certain shells.
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- vascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
- vat receipt — a receipt showing details of VAT paid on a transaction, together with the VAT number
- vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventral fin — pelvic fin.
- ventricular — of, relating to, or of the nature of a ventricle.
- ventriculus — the part of the food tract in which digestion takes place, especially the lower cavity of a compound stomach in insects.
- 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.
- venturingly — in a venturing manner
- veratridine — a yellowish-white, amorphous, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 36 H 51 NO 11 , occurring with veratrine in the seeds of the sabadilla.
- verbalistic — a person skilled in the use of words.
- verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
- verbigerate — to talk or chat
- vermiculate — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vermiculite — any of a group of platy minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum, magnesium, and iron, that expand markedly on being heated: used in the expanded state for heat insulation and as a plant growth medium.
- vermination — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- versability — the quality or state of being capable of being turned
- versatilely — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- versatility — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- verslibrist — someone who writes free verse
- verticality — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.