12-letter words containing v, u
- unsupervised — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unvaccinated — to inoculate with the vaccine of cowpox so as to render the subject immune to smallpox.
- unvanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
- unvariegated — varied; diversified; diverse.
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- unvindicated — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- unvirtuously — in an unvirtuous manner; not virtuously; without virtue
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- unvulnerable — invulnerable
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- up the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
- uv ceti star — flare star.
- vacuum brake — a brake system, used on British and many overseas railways, in which the brake is held off by a vacuum on one side of the brake-operating cylinder. If the vacuum is destroyed by controlled leakage of air or a disruptive emergency, the brake is applied. It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system
- vacuum flask — A vacuum flask is a container which is used to keep hot drinks hot or cold drinks cold. It has two thin silvery glass walls with a vacuum between them.
- vacuum frame — a machine from which the air is extracted in order to obtain close contact between the surfaces of two materials, e.g. the film and plate during platemaking
- vacuum gauge — a device for measuring pressures below atmospheric pressure in the receiver of an air pump, in steam condensers, and the like.
- vacuum servo — a servomechanism that is operated by the lowering of pressure in the intake duct of an internal-combustion engine
- vacuum valve — vacuum tube
- vaginicolous — living in a sheath
- vainglorious — filled with or given to vainglory: a vainglorious actor.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valuableness — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- varicoloured — having many colours; variegated; motley
- variety turn — an act in a variety show
- variocoupler — a transformer having coils with a self-impedance that is essentially constant but a mutual impedance that can be varied by moving one coil with respect to the other.
- vascular ray — a radiate band of parenchyma in the secondary xylem extending into the secondary phloem of the stems of certain vascular plants, formed by the cambium and serving for the storage of food and the conduction of nutriments.
- vascularised — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vascularized — rendered vascular by the formation of new blood vessels.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- vellum paper — a creamy coloured heavy paper resembling vellum
- venepuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- vengefulness — desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
- venipuncture — the puncture of a vein for surgical or therapeutic purposes or for collecting blood specimens for analysis.
- venturi tube — a device for measuring the flow of a fluid, consisting of a tube with a short, narrow center section and widened, tapered ends, so that a fluid flowing through the center section at a higher velocity than through an end section creates a pressure differential that is a measure of the flow of the fluid.
- venus figure — Venus (def 3).
- venus's-hair — a delicate maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-veneris.
- verbal abuse — insulting, shouting at sb
- verbenaceous — belonging to the plant family Verbenaceae.
- verd antique — a green, mottled or impure serpentine, sold as a marble and much used for decorative purposes.