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11-letter words containing v, a, p

  • semiprivate — having some degree of privacy but not fully private, as a hospital room with fewer beds than a ward.
  • septavalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • septemviral — of or relating to septemvirs or a septemvirate.
  • septivalent — having a valence of seven; heptavalent.
  • service cap — a saucer-shaped uniform cap with a visor, standard in the U.S. Army and Air Force.
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • speculative — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • spirit cave — an archaeological site in Thailand that has produced evidence of very early plant domestication in Southeast Asia, dated c7000 b.c.
  • sporulative — involving or relating to sporulation
  • stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
  • superactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
  • superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
  • superoctave — an organ stop two octaves above the standard pitch
  • supervisual — of or relating to seeing or sight: a visual image.
  • supplicavit — a mandatory writ formerly issued from the King's Bench or Court of Chancery
  • suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • syncopative — relating to syncopation
  • temperative — having a mitigating quality
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • unapproving — expressing disapproval or displeasure
  • unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
  • up-and-over — (of a door, etc) opened by being lifted and moved into a horizontal position
  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • upvaluation — the state or process of being or becoming higher in value
  • vacuum pump — a pump or device by which a partial vacuum can be produced.
  • vacuum-pack — to pack (food) in a vacuum-packed container.
  • vaivodeship — the position or office of a vaivode
  • vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
  • van paassen — Pierre [pee-air] /piˈɛər/ (Show IPA), (Pieter Anthonie Laurusse) 1895–1968, U.S. journalist, author, and clergyman; born in the Netherlands.
  • vanilla pod — the seed pod of the vanilla plant, used in cooking
  • vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
  • vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
  • vapor trail — contrail.
  • vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
  • vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
  • vasopressor — a hormone, as epinephrine, or other agent that raises the blood pressure by causing contraction of the arteriole muscles, narrowing the arteriole passage.
  • vasospastic — of or relating to a vasospasm
  • vat receipt — a receipt showing details of VAT paid on a transaction, together with the VAT number
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
  • vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
  • videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
  • videotaping — magnetic tape on which the electronic impulses produced by the video and audio portions of a television program, motion picture, etc., are recorded (distinguished from audiotape).
  • vin de pays — the wine of a particular region, usually available only in the region where the wine is made; local wine.
  • vin du pays — vin de pays.
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