12-letter words containing r, e, l, i, c
- unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
- unproclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- unreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- unreconciled — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- unreflecting — not reflecting; unthinking: an unreflecting, self-satisfied man.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrhetorical — not rhetorical; literal; plainspoken
- upper circle — the seats in a theatre that are situated above the dress circle
- valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- 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.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- 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.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- 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.
- white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
- white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.