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12-letter words containing v, a, p

  • silver paper — silver foil.
  • silver plate — thin coat of silver
  • silver-plate — to coat (base metal) with silver, especially by electroplating.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • space travel — spaceflight of manned vehicles.
  • space-saving — that saves space.
  • spar varnish — a durable, weather-resistant varnish applied to unpainted wooden areas, especially on ships.
  • spinal nerve — any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column, each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck, trunk, or limbs.
  • spotsylvania — a village in NE Virginia: the scene of Civil War battles between the armies of Grant and Lee, May 8–21, 1864.
  • spotted cavy — paca.
  • stirrup-vase — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • superelevate — to raise above a normal level
  • supergravity — a hypothetical symmetry among groups of particles containing fermions and bosons, especially in theories of gravity (supergravity) that unify electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force with gravity into a single unified force.
  • supermassive — (of a black hole or star) having a mass in the range of millions or billions of times that of the sun
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supravitally — in a supravital manner
  • transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • transumptive — of or relating to transumption
  • trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
  • unapplausive — not giving applause; not expressing praise
  • unapprovable — capable of being approved.
  • unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
  • unpersuasive — not capable of persuading
  • unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
  • unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
  • vacation pay — salary paid during holidays
  • valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
  • valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
  • vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
  • vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
  • vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
  • vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
  • vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
  • 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
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