12-letter words containing cu
- 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 It is now largely superseded by the Westinghouse brake system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
- 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.
- vax document — A document preparation system from DEC.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vesicularity — the quality or state of being vesicular
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- vocicultural — relating to voice training
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- wood cudweed — a weedy, composite plant, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, of the North Temperate Zone, having woolly foliage and numerous, dirty-white flowerheads in a leafy spike.
- xenocurrency — currency circulating or traded in money markets of countries outside its country of issue.