11-letter words containing v, r, o, t
- unoperative — having no use or effect; inoperative
- unprovident — lacking caution; improvident; imprudent
- 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.
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- 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
- variegation — an act of variegating.
- vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
- 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.
- vectorscope — a waveform monitor which measures audio and video signals
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — 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.
- venturesome — having or showing a disposition to undertake risky or dangerous activities; daring: a venturesome investor; a venturesome explorer.
- verberation — a lashing, beating, or whipping
- vermination — to become infested with vermin, especially parasitic vermin.
- vertiginous — whirling; spinning; rotary: vertiginous currents of air.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- vibrational — the act of vibrating.
- vibratoless — without vibrato
- viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
- victorville — a city in SE California.
- victoryless — without victory
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- vinificator — a condenser for alcohol vapors escaping from fermenting wine.
- vinton cerf — Vint Cerf
- violet iris — an iris, Iris verna, of the eastern U.S., having solitary, violet-blue flowers.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- vocal tract — the passages above the larynx through which air passes in the production of speech, including the buccal, oral, nasal, and pharyngeal cavities.
- volga tatar — a member of a modern Turkic people living in the Tatar Autonomous Republic and adjacent regions of eastern European Russia and in widely scattered communities in western Siberia and central Asia.
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voltammeter — an instrument for measuring voltage or amperage.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voluntarism — Philosophy. any theory that regards will as the fundamental agency or principle, in metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology.
- volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- voortrekker — one of the original Afrikaner settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State who migrated from the Cape Colony in the 1830s
- vortex ring — a stable perturbation in a fluid that takes the form of a torus in which the flow rotates in the section of the torus so that the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the torus balances body forces. The best-known vortex ring is a smoke ring
- vortiginous — resembling a vortex; whirling; vortical.
- vote-getter — a candidate or issue whose personality, policies, etc., are considered certain to attract many votes.
- vote-winner — a popular action that could secure votes for a person or party
- voyeuristic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- water vapor — a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. Compare steam (def 2).
- wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.