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12-letter words containing v, o, r, t, e

  • thortveitite — a scandium yttrium silicate mineral occurring in grayish-green orthorhombic crystals.
  • toaster oven — an electrical appliance that functions as both an oven and a toaster and is small enough to fit on a kitchen counter or table.
  • tongue cover — a loose-leaf binding having a flap of the cover concealing the binding posts.
  • transportive — to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
  • transversion — a turning across, or into, something else
  • traverse rod — a horizontal rod upon which drapes slide to open or close when pulled by cords.
  • tree-covered — covered by or having many trees
  • trevor-roper — Hugh (Redwald) [red-wawld] /ˈrɛd wɔld/ (Show IPA), 1914–2003, British historian.
  • triple voile — a lightweight, sheer voile of silk or synthetic fibers constructed in plain or novelty weaves.
  • turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
  • turn over to — If you turn something over to a different function or use, you change its function or use.
  • ultraviolent — characterized by or pertaining to extreme acts of violence
  • unconversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
  • unoverthrown — not overthrown
  • unproductive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
  • unprotective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
  • unsupportive — giving support.
  • van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
  • varia lectio — a variant reading.
  • varicosities — the state or condition of being varicose.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • vasoligature — vasoligation.
  • vector boson — one of the three particles that are believed to transmit the weak force: the positively charged W particle, the negatively charged W particle, and the neutral Z 0 particle.
  • vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
  • vector space — an additive group in which addition is commutative and with which is associated a field of scalars, as the field of real numbers, such that the product of a scalar and an element of the group or a vector is defined, the product of two scalars times a vector is associative, one times a vector is the vector, and two distributive laws hold.
  • 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.
  • ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
  • ventripotent — having a large belly
  • ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
  • 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.
  • verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
  • vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
  • vituperatory — abusive or blaming
  • vociferation — noisy outcry; clamor.
  • vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
  • volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
  • von stroheim — Erich [er-ik;; German ey-rikh] /ˈɛr ɪk;; German ˈeɪ rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1885–1957, U.S. actor and director, born in Austria.
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