12-letter words containing v, a, p, e
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- 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.
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- voltaic pile — an early battery cell, consisting of several metal disks, each made of one of two dissimilar metals, arranged in an alternating series, and separated by pads moistened with an electrolyte.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- water vapour — steam
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor