13-letter words containing v, e, r, g, i, l
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-evaluating — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- ring-a-lievio — a game played usually between two teams in which the members of one team attempt to find, capture, and imprison the members of the other, who can be freed only by a teammate not yet captured.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rocking valve — (on a steam engine) a valve mechanism oscillating through an arc to open and close.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- silver lining — a sign of hope in an unfortunate or gloomy situation; a bright prospect: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- silver tongue — the characteristic of being skilful at persuading people to believe what they say or to do what they want them to do
- slave trading — trafficking in people
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- traveling bag — a small bag, as a valise or suitcase, usually made of leather, having an oblong shape, and used chiefly to hold clothes.
- undeservingly — in an undeserving manner
- vaginal cream — A vaginal cream is cream for treating vaginal infections, applied with a special applicator.
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- valet parking — a service offered by a hotel, restaurant, etc., by which patrons' cars are parked by an attendant.
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vicar general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- vicar-general — Roman Catholic Church. a priest deputized by a bishop to assist him in the administration of a diocese.
- village green — park or common in a village
- villeggiatura — a (country) holiday
- virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- yelizavetgrad — a former name of Kirovograd.