12-letter words containing v, e, n
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- 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.
- viewing time — the amount of time spent watching television, esp with regard to a particular region
- 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.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- vin de table — the classification given to a French wine that does not meet the requirements of any of the three higher classifications
- vina del mar — a city in central Chile, near Valparaiso: seaside resort.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vine-growing — of, relating to, or characterized by the cultivation of grapevines
- vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinylbenzene — styrene.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virgin queen — Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- virgin river — a river in SW Utah, NW Arizona, and SE Nevada, flowing SW and S to the Colorado River at Lake Mead. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent
- virtuousness — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- vision quest — (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- 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.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanogenic — created by a volcano; of volcanic origin.
- volitionless — having no volition
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vox angelica — an organ stop with a soft tone, often similar to the voix céleste
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- 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.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.