12-letter words containing n, i, g, e, l
- unnegotiable — capable of being negotiated: a negotiable salary demand.
- unpleasingly — in an unpleasing manner
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unreflecting — not reflecting; unthinking: an unreflecting, self-satisfied man.
- unrepiningly — in an unrepining manner
- unsettlingly — in an unsettling or worrying manner
- unslumbering — not sleeping
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
- unyieldingly — unable to bend or be penetrated under pressure; hard: trees so unyielding that they broke in the harsh north winds.
- urinogenital — genitourinary.
- urobilinogen — a colourless substance produced by bacterial degradation of the bile pigment bilirubin in the intestine and which produces urobilin when oxidized
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
- walking leaf — leaf insect.
- walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- wallpapering — Present participle of wallpaper.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- waterfalling — Present participle of waterfall.
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- waterlogging — to cause (a boat, ship, etc.) to become uncontrollable as a result of flooding.
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- well logging — the process or technique of recording a well log.
- well-fitting — suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
- well-meaning — meaning or intending well; having good intentions: a well-meaning but tactless person.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- wellingtonia — (UK) A large coniferous tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, from California.
- wet puddling — puddling on a hearth rich in iron oxide so that carbon monoxide is generated, giving the iron the appearance of boiling.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.