11-letter words containing o, r, v
- volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
- volga tatar — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voltammeter — an instrument for measuring voltage or amperage.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- vomeronasal — relating to the small bone dividing the nostrils
- voortrekker — one of the original Afrikaner settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State who migrated from the Cape Colony in the 1830s
- voraciously — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
- vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
- vote-getter — a candidate or issue whose personality, policies, etc., are considered certain to attract many votes.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- vowel rhyme — Prosody. assonance (def 2).
- vowel-rhyme — resemblance of sounds.
- vox barbara — a questionably unconventional word or term; barbarism: applied especially to neo-Latin terms in botany, zoology, etc., that are formed from elements that are neither Latin nor Greek.
- voyeuristic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- warmed over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- warmed-over — (of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
- water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
- well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
- wheresoever — Wherever.
- whichsoever — Whichever.
- whosesoever — Whoever’s.
- wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
- woodcarving — the art or technique of carving objects by hand from wood or of carving decorations into wood.
- write cover — If an insurance company writes cover, it underwrites a risk or insures someone.
- yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
- zero vector — a vector of which all the components are zero.