12-letter words containing l, i, v, t
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- vacationland — an area having recreational facilities, historic or picturesque sights, etc., that attract vacationists.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valve lifter — (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestibulitis — a painful inflammation of the entrance to the vagina
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- vigintillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 63 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 120 zeros.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vin de table — the classification given to a French wine that does not meet the requirements of any of the three higher classifications
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vision cloth — a curtain with an inset scrim behind which a lighted scene appears, as a vision, dream, or the like.
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life