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13-letter words containing l, a, v, e, r, n

  • unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
  • unretrievable — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • unserviceable — not suitable to be used
  • untraversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • unvitrifiable — not able to be vitrified
  • upland plover — a large, field-inhabiting sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, of eastern North America, resembling a plover: now protected and increasing in numbers.
  • vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
  • vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
  • valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
  • valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
  • van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
  • venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
  • ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
  • ventrolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the front and side.
  • venus flytrap — firewall machine
  • verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
  • vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
  • vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
  • vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
  • vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
  • vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
  • vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
  • vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
  • vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
  • victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
  • village green — park or common in a village
  • virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
  • volta redonda — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
  • voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
  • vulnerability — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
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