11-letter words containing v, r, a
- la louviere — a city in S Belgium, S of Brussels.
- la traviata — an opera (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi.
- la valliere — Duchesse de [dy-shes duh] /dyˈʃɛs də/ (Show IPA), (Francoise Louise de la Baume Le Blanc) 1644–1710, French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XIV of France: later a religious.
- laborsaving — designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
- lake vänern — a lake in SW Sweden: the largest lake in Sweden and W Europe; drains into the Kattegat. Area: 5585 sq km (2156 sq miles)
- landgravine — the wife of a landgrave.
- larch river — a river in N Quebec, Canada, flowing NE to the Caniapiscau River. 270 miles (434 km) long.
- larviparous — producing larvae, as certain insects and mollusks.
- larvivorous — feeding on larvae; larva-eating.
- lassa fever — a highly contagious viral disease, largely confined to central West Africa, characterized by fever, difficulty in swallowing, and inflammation of the pharynx, often progressing to infect the lungs, heart, and kidneys, leading to death.
- latin lover — seductive Latin American man
- laundry van — a van driven by a laundry worker and which is used in the collection and delivery of laundry
- lawyer vine — any of various kinds of entangling and thorny vegetation, such as the rattan palm, esp in tropical areas
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- levorphanol — a potent synthetic narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 7 , as the tartrate, used in the treatment of moderate to severe pain.
- liard-river — a river in W Canada, flowing from S Yukon through N British Columbia and the Northwest Territories into the Mackenzie River. 550 miles (885 km) long.
- line starve — (MIT, opposite of line feed) 1. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this). On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen. "To print "X squared", you just output "X", line starve, "2", line feed." (The line starve causes the "2" to appear on the line above the "X", and the line feed gets back to the original line.) 2. A character (or character sequence) that causes a terminal to perform this action. ASCII 26, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard. Unlike "line feed", "line starve" is *not* standard ASCII terminology. Even among hackers it is considered silly. 3. (Proposed) A sequence such as \c (used in System V echo, as well as nroff and troff) that suppresses a newline or other character(s) that would normally be emitted.
- live-bearer — any viviparous fish of the family Poeciliidae, often kept in home aquariums.
- livebearers — Plural form of livebearer.
- liver salts — a preparation of mineral salts used to treat indigestion
- love affair — a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.
- lubavitcher — a member of a missionary Hasidic movement founded in the 1700s by Rabbi Shneour Zalman of Lyady.
- lucratively — In a lucrative manner, profitably.
- lunar rover — a wire-wheeled, battery-powered vehicle used by Apollo astronauts to explore the moon's surface.
- luoravetlan — Chukotian.
- macro-level — at or on a level that is large in scale or scope: macrolevel research on crime rates in urban areas.
- maiden over — Cricket. an over in which no runs are made.
- maidservant — a female servant.
- mail server — 1. (tool, messaging) A program that distributes files or information in response to requests sent via electronic mail. Examples on the Internet include Almanac and netlib. Mail servers are also used on Bitnet. In the days before Internet access was widespread and UUCP mail links were common, mail servers could be used to provide remote services which might now be provided via FTP or WWW. 2. (messaging) (Or "mail hub") A computer used to store and/or forward electronic mail.
- malta fever — brucellosis.
- maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- maneuvrable — Alternative form of maneuverable.
- manoeuvered — Simple past tense and past participle of manoeuver.
- manoeuvring — A manoeuvre.
- maple grove — a town in SE Minnesota.
- marcheshvan — Heshvan.
- margravates — Plural form of margravate.
- margraviate — Alternative spelling of margravate.
- margravines — Plural form of margravine.
- marivaudage — Writing style characterized by the refined affection, originating from the writing of the French novelist w Pierre de Marivaux.
- mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
- marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mavourneens — Plural form of mavourneen.
- mcgillivray — Alexander, 1759?–93, Native American chief of the Creek nation.
- megadiverse — Exhibiting great diversity, especially great biodiversity.
- meliorative — That meliorates; curative, salutary.
- menservants — plural of manservant.
- mensurative — adapted for or concerned with measuring.
- merovingian — of or relating to the Frankish dynasty established by Clovis, which reigned in Gaul and Germany from a.d. 476 to 751.
- microvillar — Of or pertaining to a microvillus.