12-letter words containing v, a, s, t, n
- sustentative — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
- svga monitor — (hardware, graphics) A monitor capable of displaying the output of an SVGA card.
- thanksgiving — the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God.
- toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
- transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
- transitivity — verb: requiring a direct object
- transmissive — the act or process of transmitting.
- transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
- transumptive — of or relating to transumption
- transvaalian — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- transvaginal — through or via the vagina
- transvaluate — to change the value of
- transversely — lying or extending across or in a cross direction; cross.
- transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
- transvestism — the practice, especially of men, of wearing clothing usually associated with the opposite sex for psychological gratification.
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- transvestite — a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
- transylvania — a region and former province in central Romania: formerly part of Hungary. 24,027 sq. mi. (62,230 sq. km).
- unadvertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- underservant — a servant of inferior or subordinate rank.
- unexhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- 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 press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.