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11-letter words containing v, r, a

  • upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
  • vaccinatory — used for or relating to vaccination
  • vacillatory — marked by or displaying vacillation: a vacillatory policy of action.
  • vagus nerve — either one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the muscles of the pharynx, larynx, heart, and thoracic and abdominal viscera, and of sensory fibers that conduct impulses from these structures to the brain.
  • valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
  • valley girl — an affluent young Californian woman, typically considered as being excessively concerned with physical appearance and social status
  • vallombrosa — a resort in central Italy, near Florence: famous abbey.
  • valve train — A valve train is the total mechanism that causes the valves of an engine to lift and close.
  • vampire bat — any of several New World tropical bats of the genera Desmodus, Diphylla, and Diaemus, the size of a small mouse, feeding on small amounts of blood obtained from resting mammals and birds by means of a shallow cut made with specialized incisor teeth.
  • van der hum — a spicy liqueur from South Africa, flavored with tangerine and herbs.
  • van der zee — James, 1886–1983, U.S. photographer.
  • vanguardism — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
  • vanguardist — the beliefs and activities of persons who consider themselves to be leaders in a particular field or school of thought.
  • vanity fair — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity.
  • vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
  • vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
  • vapor trail — contrail.
  • vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
  • vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • variability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • varicellate — having small varices, as certain shells.
  • varicelloid — resembling varicella.
  • varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
  • varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
  • variegation — an act of variegating.
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • varsovienne — a Polish dance
  • vascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • vascularize — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
  • vasculature — the arrangement of blood vessels in the body or a part of the body
  • vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
  • vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
  • vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
  • vasopressor — a hormone, as epinephrine, or other agent that raises the blood pressure by causing contraction of the arteriole muscles, narrowing the arteriole passage.
  • vat receipt — a receipt showing details of VAT paid on a transaction, together with the VAT number
  • vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
  • vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
  • vendemiaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the first month of the year, extending from September 22 to October 21.
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
  • ventral fin — pelvic fin.
  • ventricular — of, relating to, or of the nature of a ventricle.
  • venus'-hair — a maidenhair fern (Adiantum capillus-veneris) of tropical America and the S U.S.
  • veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
  • veratridine — a yellowish-white, amorphous, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 36 H 51 NO 11 , occurring with veratrine in the seeds of the sabadilla.
  • verb phrase — a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.
  • verbal noun — a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs, as, in English, the -ing form of Eating is fun or of Smoking is forbidden.
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