12-letter words containing v, f, c
- refractivity — the power to refract.
- salvifically — in a saving manner
- self-service — the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
- unreflective — not reflective; thoughtless; lacking in due deliberation; heedless; rash: a sweeping, unreflective pessimism.
- vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vivification — to give life to; animate; quicken.
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.