12-letter words containing n, o, v, a, c
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- un-revocable — that may be revoked.
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
- vacationland — an area having recreational facilities, historic or picturesque sights, etc., that attract vacationists.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaticination — an act of prophesying.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vivification — to give life to; animate; quicken.
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- 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.
- vocalization — to make vocal; utter; articulate; sing.
- vocationally — of, relating to, or connected with a vocation or occupation: a vocational aptitude.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanic arc — a curving chain of active volcanoes formed above a subduction zone and adjacent to a convergent plate boundary.
- volcanic ash — ash1 (def 2).
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volcanologic — relating to vulcanology
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- 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.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.