12-letter words containing v, e, a, l, c
- uncultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- uncultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- vacuum valve — vacuum tube
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
- valle-inclán — Rámon María del (raˈmɔn maˈria del). 1866–1936, Spanish novelist and dramatist. His works include the novel Tirano Banderas (1926) and the satirical play Don Friolera's Horns (1925)
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- 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.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- 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.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocal memnon — one of the two seated figures of the Colossus of Memnon: so called because it once emitted sounds when struck by the rays of the rising sun.
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volstead act — an act of Congress, introduced in 1919 by Andrew J. Volstead to implement the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- voltaic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- 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.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.