12-letter words containing v, u
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- verticillium — a fungus in the Verticillium genus which normally affects plants or insects
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- very much so — The expression very much so is an emphatic way of answering 'yes' to something or saying that it is true or correct.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vesper mouse — white-footed mouse.
- vestibulitis — a painful inflammation of the entrance to the vagina
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicissitudes — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- villainously — having a cruel, wicked, malicious nature or character.
- villeurbanne — a city in E France, near Lyons.
- virgin queen — Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- 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
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- vitrifacture — the making of glass or glass products
- vituperation — verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation.
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- vituperatory — abusive or blaming
- vocabularian — a person who is particularly or overly attentive to words
- vocabularied — having a vocabulary as specified
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- 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.
- vomiturition — ineffectual efforts to vomit.
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- vuelta abajo — a region in W Cuba.
- vulgar latin — popular Latin, as distinguished from literary or standard Latin, especially those spoken forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed. Abbreviation: VL.
- vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
- water vapour — steam
- wavefunction — (physics) A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.