10-letter words containing r, i, v, e, c
- unserviced — an act of helpful activity; help; aid: to do someone a service.
- unveracity — lack of veracity or truthfulness; the quality or condition of tending to speak what is false
- vacationer — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- vagrancies — the conduct of a vagrant.
- varicocele — a varicose condition of the spermatic veins of the scrotum.
- ventricles — Zoology. any of various hollow organs or parts in an animal body.
- ventricose — swollen, especially on one side or unequally; protuberant.
- ventriculi — the part of the food tract in which digestion takes place, especially the lower cavity of a compound stomach in insects.
- verdicchio — a light, dry white wine of the Adriatic coast of central Italy
- vermicelli — a kind of pasta in the form of long, slender, solid threads, resembling spaghetti but thinner. Compare macaroni (def 1).
- vermicidal — a substance or agent used to kill worms, especially a drug used to kill parasitic intestinal worms.
- vermicular — of, relating to, or done by worms.
- verrocchio — Andrea del [ahn-dre-ah del] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl/ (Show IPA), 1435–88, Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and painter.
- versicolor — changeable in color: versicolor skies.
- versicular — of or consisting of verses.
- vertically — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- vicariance — the geographical separation and isolation of a subpopulation, resulting in the original population's differentiation as a new variety or species.
- vice versa — the other way around
- vicegerent — an officer appointed as deputy by and to a sovereign or supreme chief.
- viceregent — a deputy regent; a person who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.
- victimizer — to make a victim of.
- victoriate — a silver coin of ancient Rome, first issued in the late 3rd century b.c., having a figure of Victory on the reverse.
- victualler — a person who furnishes victuals, especially a sutler.
- virescence — state of becoming somewhat, though usually not totally, green, due to the abnormal presence of chlorophyll.
- viscachera — the burrow system of viscachas, which can extend up to 600 square metres, and has 4 to 30 entrances, some of which are big enough for a person to stand waist-deep
- viscerally — of or relating to the viscera.
- viscometer — a device for measuring viscosity.
- viscometry — a device for measuring viscosity.
- vitrectomy — the microsurgical procedure of removing the vitreous humor and replacing it with saline solution, performed to improve vision that has been impaired by opacities.
- vitrescent — becoming glass.
- vivisector — to dissect the living body of (an animal).
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- vociferous — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voice part — the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or concerted composition.
- voice-over — the voice of an offscreen narrator, announcer, or the like.
- voiceprint — a graphic representation of a person's voice, showing the component frequencies as analyzed by a sound spectrograph.
- volumetric — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- vorticella — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Vorticella, having a transparent, bell-shaped body with a retractile stalk.
- vouchering — a person or thing that vouches.
- vulcanizer — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.