12-letter words containing v, s, i
- vienna woods — Wienerwald.
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- villahermosa — a state in SE Mexico, on the Gulf of Campeche. 9783 sq. mi. (25,338 sq. km). Capital: Villahermosa.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- villanelle's — a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.
- vindicatress — a female vindicator
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vinyasa yoga — a style of yoga in which breathing exercises are used to synchronize fluid transitions through a fixed sequence of poses
- vinylstyrene — divinylbenzene.
- virilescence — the quality or state of being virilescent
- 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.
- viruliferous — carrying a virus
- 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
- vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
- vision cloth — a curtain with an inset scrim behind which a lighted scene appears, as a vision, dream, or the like.
- vision mixer — the person who selects and manipulates the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- 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.
- visual angle — the angle subtended by an object at the lens of the eye
- visual basic — (language) (VB) A popular event-driven visual programming system from Microsoft Corporation for Microsoft Windows. VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen. It is widely used for in-house application program development and for prototyping. It can also be used to create ActiveX and COM components. Version 1 was released in 1991 [by Microsoft?].
- visual dbase — (language) A Rapid Application Development suite with a compiler and intranet tools to enable developers to publish data on the web. Originally a Borland product, the first version released by dBase, Inc. was Visual dBase 5.7.
- visual field — field of vision.
- visual range — Meteorology. visibility (def 3).
- visualizable — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- 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
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- vitiliginous — a skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.
- vitreousness — the state of being vitreous
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voix celeste — an organ stop having for each note two pipes tuned to slightly different pitches and producing a wavering, gentle tone.
- volcanic ash — ash1 (def 2).
- volitionless — having no volition
- voluminously — forming, filling, or writing a large volume or many volumes: a voluminous edition.
- voluntaryism — voluntarism (def 2).
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- voluntourism — tourism in which travellers do voluntary work to help communities or the environment in the places they are visiting
- voluptuosity — full of, characterized by, or ministering to indulgence in luxury, pleasure, and sensuous enjoyment: a voluptuous life.
- 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.
- voroshilovsk — former name of Stavropol.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- wedding vows — promises made by bride and groom
- well advised — If someone says that you would be well advised to do a particular thing, they are advising you to do it.