12-letter words containing o, r, v
- unchivalrous — having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty.
- uncoercively — in an uncoercive manner
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
- undiscovered — to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unobservedly — without having been observed; in an unobserved manner
- unoppressive — not cruel or harsh
- unoverthrown — not overthrown
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unprovokedly — in an unprovoked manner
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
- 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.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- van der rohe — Ludwig Mies [luhd-wig meez,, mees] /ˈlʌd wɪg miz,, mis/ (Show IPA), Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- vargas llosa — Mario, born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- 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.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.