13-letter words containing v, a, l, e, r
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- ventrolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the front and side.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verifiability — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- vertical file — a collection of pamphlets, pictures, clippings, or other materials stored upright, as in a filing cabinet or cabinets.
- verticillated — whorled
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
- victoriaville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- video library — video and dvd lending service
- village green — park or common in a village
- villeggiatura — a (country) holiday
- viola d'amore — a treble viol with numerous sympathetic strings and several gut strings, producing a resonant sound.
- virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- volta redonda — a city in SE Brazil, NW of Rio de Janeiro.
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- vraisemblance — verisimilitude; appearance of truth
- vulnerability — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- well-favoured — of pleasing appearance; good-looking; pretty or handsome.
- well-traveled — having traveled, especially to distant places; experienced in travel.
- western slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- white slavery — the condition of or traffic in white slaves.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.