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12-letter words containing s, o, v, e, r

  • vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct 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)
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • vasoligature — vasoligation.
  • vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
  • ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
  • verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
  • vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
  • very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
  • vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
  • video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
  • video screen — screen (def 5).
  • villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
  • virtuousness — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
  • viruliferous — carrying a virus
  • visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
  • viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
  • viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
  • vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
  • vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
  • vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
  • vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
  • volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
  • von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
  • weavers-knot — sheet bend.
  • whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
  • withersoever — To wherever, to anywhere.
  • zero-divisor — a nonzero element of a ring such that its product with some other nonzero element of the ring equals zero.
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