12-letter words containing p, a, l, v
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- 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.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- 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 plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vitamin pill — a tablet containing a vitamin or vitamins
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.