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11-letter words containing v, a

  • fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
  • fast-moving — moving or capable of moving at high speed.
  • favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
  • favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
  • fax over ip — (communications)   (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
  • ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
  • final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
  • finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
  • five-a-side — a version of soccer with five players on each side
  • five-gaited — noting an American saddle horse that has been trained to execute the rack and slow gait in addition to the walk, trot, and canter, and that is used chiefly for showing.
  • flag-waving — an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
  • flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
  • flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
  • flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
  • fluvastatin — A drug of the statin class, used to treat hypercholesterolemia and to prevent cardiovascular disease.
  • fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
  • forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
  • french navy — a dark dull navy blue
  • frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
  • frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
  • ftp archive — archive site
  • fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
  • gainesville — a city in N Florida.
  • galavanting — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
  • gallivanted — Simple past tense and past participle of gallivant.
  • gallivanter — to wander about, seeking pleasure or diversion; gad.
  • gallovidian — a native or inhabitant of Galloway
  • galvanising — Present participle of galvanise.
  • galvanizing — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • gas vacuole — a gas-filled structure that provides buoyancy in some aquatic bacteria
  • gauze weave — leno (def 1).
  • geneva gown — a loose, large-sleeved, black preaching gown worn by members of the Protestant clergy: so named from its use by the Calvinist clergy of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • genu valgum — knock-knee.
  • gerlachovka — a mountain in N Slovakia: highest peak of the Carpathian Mountains. 8737 feet (2663 meters).
  • germinative — capable of germinating, developing, or creating; of or pertaining to germination.
  • get weaving — to hurry; start to do something
  • give a damn — to declare (something) to be bad, unfit, invalid, or illegal.
  • give a hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • give a hoot — not care
  • give a shit — excrement; feces.
  • give a toss — If you say that you do not give a toss about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you do not care about them at all.
  • give battle — to commence fighting
  • give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
  • give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • globe valve — a valve with a globular body, closed by a disk seating on an opening in an internal wall.
  • glove maker — someone who makes gloves
  • go ape over — to become crazy or extremely enthusiastic about
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