12-letter words containing v, i, b
- takeover bid — offer to buy a company
- unachievable — to bring to a successful end; carry through; accomplish: The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose.
- unambivalent — not ambivalent; definite; certain.
- unbelievable — too dubious or improbable to be believed: an unbelievable excuse.
- unbelievably — too dubious or improbable to be believed: an unbelievable excuse.
- uncultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- unforgivably — in an unforgivable manner
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- unrelievable — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- unreversible — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unsubjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- unsubmissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- van riebeeck — Jan, full name Johan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck. 1619–77, Dutch colonial administrator. Founder of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1652)
- vanilla bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanilla-bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- velo binding — a technique for binding books or documents that uses a narrow plastic strip along the length of the front and back binding edges and plastic pegs to attach the strips through holes punched in the pages.
- 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.
- 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.
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- vestibulitis — a painful inflammation of the entrance to the vagina
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vidhan sabha — the legislative assembly of any of the states of India
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- 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
- vinylbenzene — styrene.
- virgin birth — Theology. the doctrine or dogma that, by the miraculous agency of God, the birth of Christ did not impair or prejudice the virginity of Mary. Compare Immaculate Conception.
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visualizable — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- voting booth — polling kiosk
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.