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13-letter words containing v, a, n, l

  • venetian ball — a small glass ball containing colorful objects or pieces, used chiefly as a paperweight.
  • venetian blue — a strong blue similar to cobalt blue.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
  • victoria nile — a section of the upper Nile River in central Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert. 260 miles (418 km) long.
  • vidalia onion — a large, usually somewhat flat onion with a sweet white flesh.
  • village green — park or common in a village
  • villagization — the transfer of land to village control.
  • villavicencio — a city in central Colombia.
  • vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
  • vinyl acetate — a colorless, easily polymerized, water-insoluble liquid, C 4 H 6 O 2 , produced by the reaction of acetylene and acetic acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, films, paints, and adhesives.
  • vinyl alcohol — an unstable liquid compound, C 2 H 4 O, found only in the form of its esters or as the polymer polyvinyl alcohol.
  • vinyl plastic — any of various plastics made from polymerized vinyl compounds or copolymers of vinyl and other resins, used in various molded or extruded products, coatings, adhesives, sizes, etc.
  • virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
  • virginia rail — a long-billed American rail, Rallus limicola, having blackish and reddish-brown plumage.
  • virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
  • virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
  • visual binary — a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
  • visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
  • vocationalism — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
  • volcanic bomb — bomb (def 3).
  • volcanic cone — a conical hill produced by volcanic eruption of ash, cinders, or lava.
  • volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
  • volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
  • volcanic tuff — tuff2 .
  • volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
  • volsunga saga — an Icelandic saga of the late 13th century, concerning the family of the Volsungs, the theft of the cursed treasure of Andvari, the adventures of Sigurd, his wooing of Brynhild, his enchantment and marriage to Gudrun, and his eventual murder.
  • 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.
  • voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
  • votive candle — religion: candle lit in prayer
  • 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
  • vulcanization — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • vulgarization — to make vulgar or coarse; lower; debase: to vulgarize standards of behavior.
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