12-letter words containing o, v, e, t
- unconductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- uncovenanted — not agreed to or promised by covenant.
- uninnovative — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- 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.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- 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)
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- 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.
- vedette boat — a small patrol vessel
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- 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.
- velvet glove — an outwardly gentle or friendly manner used to disguise one's firm or ruthless determination.
- 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.
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- video verite — a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- virtuousness — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vision quest — (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.