12-letter words containing v, i, r, e, n
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- 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.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- 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
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- varnish tree — any of various trees yielding sap or other substances used for varnish, as Rhus verniciflua, of Japan.
- varying hare — snowshoe hare.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- 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.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venn diagram — a diagram that uses circles to represent sets and their relationships.
- ventnor city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- 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.
- venus figure — Venus (def 3).
- 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.
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- 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.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- video screen — screen (def 5).
- 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.
- 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
- vine-growing — of, relating to, or characterized by the cultivation of grapevines
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.