12-letter words containing s, u, a, v
- unobservance — a failure to comply or observe (a law, custom, etc)
- unpersuasive — not capable of persuading
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unvanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valuableness — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- 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.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- venus's-hair — a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
- verbal abuse — insulting, shouting at sb
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visual field — field of vision.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- visualizable — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.