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12-letter words containing v, a, n, e

  • vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
  • vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
  • vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
  • velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
  • velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
  • velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
  • velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
  • veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
  • venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
  • venetian red — a red pigment, originally prepared from a natural oxide of iron, now usually made by calcining a mixture of lime and ferrous sulfate.
  • venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
  • ventana cave — a Paleo-Indian archaeological site near Tucson, Arizona.
  • ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
  • ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
  • venus's-hair — a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
  • verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
  • verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
  • verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
  • vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
  • verification — the act of verifying.
  • 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.
  • vertebration — vertebrate formation.
  • verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
  • verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
  • 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.
  • veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
  • vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
  • vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
  • vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
  • video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
  • video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
  • vienna woods — Wienerwald.
  • vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
  • villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
  • villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
  • vin de table — the classification given to a French wine that does not meet the requirements of any of the three higher classifications
  • vina del mar — a city in central Chile, near Valparaiso: seaside resort.
  • vindicatress — a female vindicator
  • vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
  • vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
  • vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
  • virgin metal — primary metal.
  • 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
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