12-letter words containing v, i, r
- 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.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- 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.
- vice-premier — a person who deputizes for a premier and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- 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.
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- 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 memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- 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 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).
- video verite — a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.
- video-record — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- 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
- vine-growing — of, relating to, or characterized by the cultivation of grapevines
- vintage year — the year of production of a vintage wine.
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- viola player — someone who plays the viola