11-letter words containing v, a, n, l
- inviolately — In an inviolate manner.
- invoiceable — Capable of being invoiced; billable.
- involucrate — having an involucre.
- involuntary — not voluntary; independent of one's will; not by one's own choice: an involuntary listener; involuntary servitude.
- irrelevance — the quality or condition of being irrelevant.
- irrelevancy — irrelevance.
- ivan pavlov — Ivan Petrovich [ee-vahn pyi-traw-vyich] /iˈvɑn pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1936, Russian physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1904.
- john calvin — John (Jean Chauvin or Caulvin) 1509–64, French theologian and reformer in Switzerland: leader in the Protestant Reformation.
- kalashnikov — A Kalashnikov is a type of rifle that is made in Russia.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lake geneva — a lake between SW Switzerland and E France: fed and drained by the River Rhône, it is the largest of the Alpine lakes; the surface is subject to considerable changes of level. Area: 580 sq km (224 sq miles)
- lake vänern — a lake in SW Sweden: the largest lake in Sweden and W Europe; drains into the Kattegat. Area: 5585 sq km (2156 sq miles)
- lake-geneva — a city in and the capital of the canton of Geneva, in SW Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva: seat of the League of Nations 1920–46.
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- latin lover — seductive Latin American man
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- leave alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- leoncavallo — Ruggiero [rood-je-raw] /rudˈdʒɛ rɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858–1919, Italian operatic composer and librettist.
- levorphanol — a potent synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 7 , as the tartrate, used in the treatment of moderate to severe pain.
- life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- live action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- live-action — of or relating to movies, videos, and the like, that feature real performers, as distinguished from animation: A new live-action version of the classic animated film will be released later this year.
- living bank — a facility in which donated human organs or tissues are preserved for subsequent transplantation.
- living dead — people who are very dull and boring
- living wage — a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
- lixiviation — to treat with a solvent; leach.
- lovableness — The property that makes someone or something lovable.
- luggage van — a railway carriage used to transport passengers' luggage, bicycles, etc
- lunar rover — a wire-wheeled, battery-powered vehicle used by Apollo astronauts to explore the moon's surface.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- malevolence — the quality, state, or feeling of being malevolent; ill will; malice; hatred.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- many-valued — (of a function) having the property that some elements in the domain have more than one image point; multiple-valued.
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- mud volcano — a vent in the earth's surface through which escaping gas and vapor issue, causing mud to boil and occasionally to overflow, forming a conical mound around the vent.
- multivalent — Chemistry. having a valence of three or higher.
- nail violin — a musical instrument consisting of a wooden cylinder or half cylinder with a number of nails or U -shaped metal pins inserted into its surface, played with one or two fiddle bows.
- napa valley — a valley in Napa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of N California, noted for its wine production
- narratively — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- naval brass — an alloy of about 60 percent copper and 40 percent zinc, with traces of lead, tin, arsenic, and iron, used in marine and steam-generating equipment.
- navigatable — Navigable.
- navratilova — Martina, born 1956, U.S. tennis player, born in the former Czechoslovakia.
- neovitalism — a new or revived form of the belief that life is a vital principle (vitalism)
- neovitalist — someone who holds to the theory of neovitalism
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- nicholas iv — (Girolamo Masci) died 1292, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1288–92.