11-letter words containing v
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
- bensenville — a town in NE Illinois.
- bereavement — Bereavement is the sorrow you feel or the state you are in when a relative or close friend dies.
- bevel joint — a miter joint, especially one in which two pieces meet at other than a right angle.
- bevel wheel — a toothed wheel, set at an oblique angle to the axis
- bi-bivalent — separating into two bivalent ions
- biconvexity — the characteristic of having two convex surfaces
- bioactivity — any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.
- bisociative — relating to bisociation
- bivouacking — a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire.
- black ivory — Black slaves collectively
- black olive — a tropical American tree, Bucida buceras, having leathery leaves and greenish-yellow flowers.
- black volta — a river in W Africa, rising in SW Burkina Faso and flowing northeast, then south into Lake Volta: forms part of the border of Ghana with Burkina-Faso and with Côte d'Ivoire. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)
- black vomit — vomit containing blood, often a manifestation of disease, such as yellow fever
- blagonravov — Anatoli Arkadyevich [an-uh-toh-lee;; Russian uh-nuh-taw-lyee uhr-kah-dyi-vyich] /ˈæn əˌtoʊ li;; Russian ʌ nʌˈtɔ lyi ʌrˈkɑ dyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1975, Russian scientist.
- blank verse — Blank verse is poetry that does not rhyme. In English literature it usually consists of lines with five stressed syllables.
- bleed valve — a valve for running off a liquid from a tank, tube, etc, or for allowing accumulations of gas in a liquid to blow off
- blood level — the amount of a substance, as cholesterol, alcohol, or triglycerides, circulating in the bloodstream: often expressed as a percent or in milligrams or micrograms per deciliter of blood.
- blue devils — a fit of depression or melancholy
- blue velvet — a mixture of paregoric and Pyribenzamine taken by vein as an illicit drug.
- blytheville — a city in NE Arkansas.
- bodhisattva — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a divine being worthy of nirvana who remains on the human plane to help men to salvation
- body cavity — the internal cavity of any multicellular animal that contains the digestive tract, heart, kidneys, etc. In vertebrates it develops from the coelom
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- boll weevil — a greyish weevil, Anthonomus grandis, of the southern US and Mexico, whose larvae live in and destroy cotton bolls
- bonaventura — Saint, called the Seraphic Doctor. 1221–74, Italian Franciscan monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher; author of a Life of St Francis and Journey of the Soul to God. Feast day: July 14
- bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
- bondservant — a serf or slave
- bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
- book review — a description and analysis of a new book
- bow divider — a bow compass, each leg of which terminates in a needle, used to transfer measurements from one area of a drawing to another.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brake lever — (on a bicycle) a lever on the handlebar that connects to the brake cable and thus operates the braking mechanism
- brake servo — The brake servo is a device for increasing the pressure of the driver's foot on the brake pedal.
- bravo-river — Mexican Rio Bravo. a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1800 miles (2900 km) long.
- brazzaville — the capital of Congo-Brazzaville, in the south on the River Congo. Pop: 1 153 000 (2005 est)
- break cover — (esp of game animals) to come out from a shelter or hiding place
- brecksville — a town in N Ohio.
- bremerhaven — a port in NW Germany: an outport for Bremen. Pop: 118 276 (2003 est)
- breshkovsky — Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”.
- bridge view — a town in NE Illinois.
- broad river — a river in W North Carolina, flowing S to join the Saluda River, forming the Congaree River in South Carolina. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- broken vein — a ruptured blood vessel
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bubble over — to overflow, as boiling liquid
- buddy movie — a genre of film dealing with the relationship and adventures of two friends