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11-letter words containing v, e, n, r

  • vermination — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
  • versed sine — one minus the cosine of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: vers.
  • vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
  • very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
  • vespertinal — of, relating to, or occurring in the evening: vespertine stillness.
  • veteran car — a car constructed before 1919, esp one constructed before 1905
  • vice-regent — a deputy regent; a person who acts in the place of a ruler, governor, or sovereign.
  • vicegerency — the position, government, or office of a vicegerent.
  • vienna roll — a yeast-raised roll with a hard crust
  • vietnam war — a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.
  • vinaigrette — Also, vinegarette. a small, ornamental bottle or box for holding aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, or the like.
  • vincristine — an alkaloid, C 46 H 56 N 4 O 10 , derived from the periwinkle, Vinca rosea, used in the management of leukemias and lymphomas.
  • vine grower — a person who cultivates grapevines
  • vinedresser — a person who tends or cultivates vines, especially grapevines.
  • vinegar eel — a minute nematode worm, Anguillula aceti, common in vinegar, fermenting paste, etc.
  • vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
  • vinegarette — vinaigrette (def 1).
  • vinegarroon — a large, nonpoisonous whipscorpion, Mastigoproctus giganteus, of the southern U.S. and Mexico, which, when disturbed, emits a volatile fluid having a vinegary odor.
  • vinegarweed — a plant, Trichostema lanceolatum, of the mint family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having clusters of blue flowers with long, protruding filaments and growing in dry, sandy soil.
  • vineyardist — a person who owns or operates a vineyard.
  • vinho verde — any of a variety of light, slightly sharp-tasting wines made from early-picked grapes in the Minho region of NW Portugal
  • viniculture — the science or study of making wines.
  • vintage car — classic antique automobile
  • vinton cerf — Vint Cerf
  • vinyl ether — a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 4 H 6 O, used as an inhalation anesthetic.
  • vinyl resin — any one of a class of thermoplastic materials, esp PVC and polyvinyl acetate, made by polymerizing vinyl compounds
  • violinmaker — a person who designs and constructs violins, especially professionally.
  • virginalled — played on the virginal
  • viridescent — slightly green; greenish.
  • virilescent — possessing typically male characteristics
  • visbreaking — Visbreaking is thermal cracking, when the vacuum residue is less viscous and it can then be used to produce valuable products.
  • vision care — Vision care is the care and treatment of eyes, eyesight conditions, and vision.
  • vitrescence — becoming glass.
  • vlaardingen — a city in the W Netherlands, at the mouth of the Rhine.
  • vociferance — vociferant utterance; vociferation.
  • voice range — the range of pitches that can be made by a human voice
  • volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • vomeronasal — relating to the small bone dividing the nostrils
  • vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
  • vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
  • vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
  • waldgravine — a woman married to a waldgrave
  • wave energy — energy obtained by harnessing wave power
  • wave number — the number of waves in one centimeter of light in a given wavelength; the reciprocal of the wavelength.
  • weathervane — A revolving pointer to show the direction of the wind, typically mounted on top of a building.
  • well-driven — past participle of drive.
  • well-proven — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • wing covert — any of the feathers concealing the bases of a bird's wing feathers.
  • yukon river — a river flowing NW and then SW from NW Canada through Alaska to the Bering Sea. About 2000 miles (3220 km) long.
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