12-letter words containing v, i, t, o
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- varia lectio — a variant reading.
- variant form — a way of writing a word which is used by some people as an alternative to the standard or generally accepted form
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vasoactivity — activity that affects the diameter of blood vessels
- vasodilation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasodilatory — of or relating to the dilation of blood vessels
- vasoligation — ligation of the vas deferens.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaticination — an act of prophesying.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velcro strip — a strip or roll of Velcro, able to be cut to the required length
- velociraptor — a small carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Velociraptor , from the late Cretaceous period, capable of leaping, and growing to a length of about 6 feet (2 meters), having feathers, a flat snout, short forelimbs with large handlike talons, and a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot.
- 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
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- 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 rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
- video verite — a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.
- vigintillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 63 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 120 zeros.
- vilification — to speak ill of; defame; slander.
- vinification — the process of making wine.
- 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
- virilization — the development of adult male physical characteristics in a female or a young boy
- virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
- virtuousness — conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright: Lead a virtuous life.
- visceromotor — of or relating to the normal movements of the viscera, especially the digestive tract.
- viscerotonia — a personality type characterized by hedonism and conviviality: said to be correlated with an endomorph body type
- viscerotonic — of, relating to, or possessing the character traits typical of viscerotonia
- viscoelastic — pertaining to a substance having both viscous and elastic properties.
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- vision cloth — a curtain with an inset scrim behind which a lighted scene appears, as a vision, dream, or the like.
- vision quest — (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
- visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
- visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
- vital organs — organs in the body that are essential to life
- vitalization — to give life to; make vital.
- vitellogenic — producing or stimulating the formation of yolk
- vitiliginous — a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.