11-letter words containing y, a, v, r
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- proactivity — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provocatory — tending to provoke
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- quaveringly — In a quavering manner; tremulously.
- ravishingly — extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing.
- reservatory — any place where reserves or stores are kept, esp of food and/or water; esp, a reservoir
- revisionary — the act or work of revising.
- rift valley — graben.
- silver gray — a light brownish-gray.
- silver-gray — gray with a silvery luster
- sky cavalry — air cavalry.
- slaveringly — in a slavering manner
- sylvestrian — living in the woods; sylvan
- taylorville — a town in central Illinois.
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- universally — in a universal manner; in every instance or place; without exception.
- unvaryingly — in a never changing manner
- 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.
- valley girl — an affluent young Californian woman, typically considered as being excessively concerned with physical appearance and social status
- 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.
- vapouringly — in a boastful manner
- variability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
- vascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- 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.
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- veraciously — habitually speaking the truth; truthful; honest: a veracious witness.
- veridically — truthful; veracious.
- versability — the quality or state of being capable of being turned
- versatilely — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- versatility — capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc.: a versatile writer.
- verticality — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- very signal — a colored flare fired from a special pistol (Very pistol) for signaling at night
- vibratility — the quality or state of being vibratile
- vicariously — performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
- viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
- vichy water — a natural mineral water from springs at Vichy, containing sodium bicarbonate, other alkaline salts, etc., used in the treatment of digestive disturbances, gout, etc.
- video diary — A video diary is a film that someone makes of the things that happen to them over a period of time, recorded using a video camera.
- videography — the art or process of making films with a video camera.
- vindicatory — tending or serving to vindicate.
- vinegar fly — any fly of the family Drosophilidae, the larvae of which feed on decaying fruit and vegetation.
- vineyardist — a person who owns or operates a vineyard.
- virgin mary — Mary (def 1).
- volitionary — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- voluntarily — done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice: a voluntary contribution.
- voraciously — craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
- wave energy — energy obtained by harnessing wave power