12-letter words containing v, e, i, t
- unperceptive — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- unpredictive — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- unredemptive — serving to redeem.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- unrepetitive — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- unrespective — not attentive; unheeding
- unsubjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unvaccinated — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unvindicated — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valve lifter — (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- 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.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- 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.
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- venetian red — a red pigment, originally prepared from a natural oxide of iron, now usually made by calcining a mixture of lime and ferrous sulfate.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- venturi tube — a device for measuring the flow of a fluid, consisting of a tube with a short, narrow center section and widened, tapered ends, so that a fluid flowing through the center section at a higher velocity than through an end section creates a pressure differential that is a measure of the flow of the fluid.
- verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular