12-letter words containing v, i, r, a
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
- via dolorosa — (initial capital letters) Christ's route to Golgotha.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicar choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- video arcade — A video arcade is a place where you can play video games on machines which work when you put money in them.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- vina del mar — a city in central Chile, near Valparaiso: seaside resort.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola
- violet layer — a layer of particles in the upper atmosphere of the planet Mars, that scatters and absorbs certain electromagnetic radiation, thus preventing the blue, violet, and ultraviolet light waves from passing through
- virgin metal — primary metal.
- virginalling — playing as on the virginal
- virginia ham — a ham from a hog fed on corn and peanuts, cured in hickory smoke.
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitamin-rich — (of a food or diet) containing a lot of vitamins or a lot of a particular vitamin
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vitriolation — the process of turning something into vitriol
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
- volcanic arc — a curving chain of active volcanoes formed above a subduction zone and adjacent to a convergent plate boundary.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- voting paper — a ballot.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- 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.