12-letter words containing m, c, v
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- vacuum gauge — a device for measuring pressures below atmospheric pressure in the receiver of an air pump, in steam condensers, and the like.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vacuum valve — vacuum tube
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-premier — a person who deputizes for a premier and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.