12-letter words containing v, a, n, e, s
- 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.
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- valuableness — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- 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)
- 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
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- 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.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- venus's-hair — a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- vernal grass — any of various Eurasian grasses of the genus Anthoxanthum, such as A. odoratum (sweet vernal grass), having the fragrant scent of coumarin
- verner's law — the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- yellow avens — herb bennet.