13-letter words containing v, i, s, u
- 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.
- unselectively — in an unselective manner
- unserviceable — not suitable to be used
- unspeculative — not characterized by speculation
- unsubstantive — a noun.
- vanilla sugar — sugar which has been infused with vanilla
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- varied thrush — a plump thrush, Ixoreus naevius, of western North America, resembling a robin with a dark band across the chest.
- vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vasostimulant — stimulating the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- 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
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- 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
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- visual acuity — acuteness of the vision as determined by a comparison with the normal ability to define certain letters at a given distance, usually 20 feet (6 meters). Abbreviation: V.
- visual artist — someone involved in the arts of painting, sculpting, photography, etc, as opposed to music, drama, and literature
- visual binary — a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- visual foxpro — (database) A Microsoft database derived from Fox Software's FoxPRO.
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- viticulturist — the culture or cultivation of grapevines; grape-growing.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
- 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.
- voluntaristic — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.