13-letter words containing v, i, s, e, r
- unintrusively — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.
- universal set — the set of all objects or elements considered in a given problem
- universalness — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- unobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unprogressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- unprovisioned — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- vaginal smear — a smear sample taken from vaginal mucous for cytological analysis
- valet service — a cleaning service, in which your clothes are collected for cleaning, from your house or hotel, and returned to you
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- variabilities — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
- variable star — a star that varies markedly in brightness from time to time.
- varicose vein — Varicose veins are swollen and painful veins in a person's legs, which sometimes require a medical operation.
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- variety meats — processed meat, such as sausage, or offal
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.
- vers-libriste — vers-librist.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- versification — the act of versifying.
- vestal virgin — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vicariousness — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- violent storm — Meteorology. storm (def 3).
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- voluntariness — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.