12-letter words containing r, v, a
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virginalling — playing as on the virginal
- virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vitriolation — the process of turning something into vitriol
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanic arc — a curving chain of active volcanoes formed above a subduction zone and adjacent to a convergent plate boundary.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- 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.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- water vapour — steam
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weather vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weather-vane — a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- well-favored — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- wine vinegar — condiment made of fermented wine
- winter haven — a city in central Florida.
- woman driver — a female driver
- wood carving — making sculptures from wood
- wood vinegar — pyroligneous acid.
- woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
- world savior — Saoshyant.
- xenoreactive — (immunology) That generates a reaction to material from another species.
- yarrow-river — a river in SE Scotland, flowing into the Tweed. 14 miles (23 km) long.
- zero gravity — the condition in which the apparent effect of gravity is zero, as in the case of a body in free fall or in orbit.