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11-letter words containing r, o, l, v, a

  • tail covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's tail feathers.
  • taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
  • thorvaldsen — Albert Bertal [ahl-bert bar-tuh l] /ˈɑl bɛrt ˈbær təl/ (Show IPA), 1770–1844, Danish sculptor.
  • travel book — a book about travelling to a certain country or region, esp a guidebook
  • travel shot — a camera shot taken from a mobile platform, dolly, or the like, that keeps within range of a moving subject.
  • travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
  • ultraviolet — beyond the violet in the spectrum, corresponding to light having wavelengths shorter than 4000 angstrom units.
  • unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
  • unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
  • unflavoured — not flavoured
  • unremovable — that may be removed.
  • unrevokable — that may be revoked.
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.
  • valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
  • vallombrosa — a resort in central Italy, near Florence: famous abbey.
  • vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
  • vapor trail — contrail.
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • varicelloid — resembling varicella.
  • varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
  • varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
  • vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
  • vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
  • veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
  • vibrational — the act of vibrating.
  • vibratoless — without vibrato
  • vicariously — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
  • viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
  • vienna roll — a yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
  • violinmaker — a person who designs and constructs violins, especially professionally.
  • visualworks — (language)   A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
  • vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
  • vocal cords — membranes in larynx producing voice
  • vocal score — a musical score that shows voice parts in full and orchestral parts in the form of a piano transcription
  • vocal tract — the passages above the larynx through which air passes in the production of speech, including the buccal, oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities.
  • volga river — a river flowing from the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation E and then S to the Caspian Sea: the longest river in Europe. 2325 miles (3745 km).
  • volga tatar — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
  • volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
  • voltammeter — an instrument for measuring voltage or amperage.
  • voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
  • voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
  • vomeronasal — relating to the small bone dividing the nostrils
  • voraciously — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
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