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12-letter words containing r, v, a

  • unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
  • unrevealable — not able to be revealed or made known
  • unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
  • unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
  • unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
  • unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
  • unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
  • unvulnerable — invulnerable
  • unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • uv ceti star — flare star.
  • vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
  • vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
  • vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
  • vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
  • val-de-marne — a department in N France. 94 sq. mi. (243 sq. km). Capital: Créteil.
  • 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.
  • valetudinary — valetudinarian.
  • valley fever — coccidioidomycosis.
  • valley forge — a village in SE Pennsylvania: winter quarters of Washington's army 1777–78.
  • valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
  • valve lifter — (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
  • 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)
  • van der rohe — Ludwig Mies [luhd-wig meez,, mees] /ˈlʌd wɪg miz,, mis/ (Show IPA), Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig.
  • van devanter — Willis, 1859–1941, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1910–37.
  • van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
  • vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
  • vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • vargas llosa — Mario, born 1936, Peruvian essayist and novelist.
  • varia lectio — a variant reading.
  • variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
  • variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
  • varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • variety turn — an act in a variety show
  • 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.
  • varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
  • varying hare — snowshoe hare.
  • vas deferens — the duct that transports the sperm from the epididymis to the penis.
  • vas efferens — any of a number of short ducts that carry sperm from the testis to the epididymis.
  • vascular ray — a radiate band of parenchyma in the secondary xylem extending into the secondary phloem of the stems of certain vascular plants, formed by the cambium and serving for the storage of food and the conduction of nutriments.
  • 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.
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