12-letter words containing v, i, r, a
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unrelievable — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valeric acid — any of several isomeric organic acids having the formula C 5 H 10 O 2 , the common one being a liquid of pungent odor obtained from valerian roots: used chiefly as an intermediate in perfumery.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valorization — to provide for the maintaining of the value or price of (a commercial commodity) by a government's purchasing the commodity at the fixed price or by its making special loans to the producers.
- valve lifter — (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- 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)
- vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
- vanity press — a printing house that specializes in publishing books for which the authors pay all or most of the costs.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety meat — edible meat other than the usual flesh, especially organs, as tongue and liver.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- 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.
- venetian red — a red pigment, originally prepared from a natural oxide of iron, now usually made by calcining a mixture of lime and ferrous sulfate.
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- venus's-hair — a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
- 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.
- verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness