12-letter words containing v, e, i, l, n, g
- navel-gazing — excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.
- nonbelieving — Not a believer; in particular, not a member of a specific religious group.
- overbuilding — Present participle of overbuild.
- overclocking — Computers. to modify (a hardware component, as a processor, graphics card, or memory) so as to increase the speed of that component beyond the specifications of the manufacturer: You can overclock your video card to improve its performance.
- overclouding — Present participle of overcloud.
- overplanning — the act or instance of planning excessively
- overplotting — the provision of an excessively elaborate plot
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- peace-loving — If you describe someone as peace-loving, you mean that they try to avoid quarrelling or fighting with other people.
- pearl diving — the act of diving for the precious gems pearls
- revitalizing — having the ability or tendency to restore strength
- ring-a-levio — a children's game in which members of one group try to find and capture hiding members of another group: a captured player is kept in a circle drawn on the ground and is set free when tagged by a teammate
- salve regina — a prayer in the form of a hymn to the Virgin Mary.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
- self-serving — preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
- servant girl — a girl or woman employed as a servant who performs household duties
- strongsville — a town in N Ohio.
- undervaluing — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- unlovingness — an unloving quality or character
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unprivileged — belonging to a class that enjoys special privileges; favored: the privileged few.
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- 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.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven