12-letter words containing ve
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- ventrodorsal — pertaining to the ventral and dorsal aspects of the body; extending from the ventral to the dorsal side.
- ventromedial — relating to both the ventral and medial surfaces, or to the front and to the middle
- 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
- verbal irony — irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning.
- 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.
- vereshchagin — Vasili Vasilievich [vuh-syee-lyee vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /vʌˈsyi lyi vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1842–1904, Russian painter.
- verification — the act of verifying.
- vermiculture — the raising and production of earthworms and their by-products.
- vernal grass — any of various Eurasian grasses of the genus Anthoxanthum, such as A. odoratum (sweet vernal grass), having the fragrant scent of coumarin
- verner's law — the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European.
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vertebration — vertebrate formation.
- verticalness — the quality or state of being vertical; uprightness
- verticillate — disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
- 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.
- vespertilian — of, relating to, or resembling a bat
- vestibulitis — a painful inflammation of the entrance to the vagina
- vestimentary — of or relating to clothes or dress
- veterans day — November 11, a legal holiday in the U.S. in commemoration of the end of World Wars I and II and in honor of veterans of the armed services.
- veterinarian — a person who practices veterinary medicine or surgery.
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vexillologic — of or relating to vexillology
- video verite — a technique, derived from cinéma vérité, in which people in real life are portrayed as they actually are without rehearsal.
- vindictively — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- virgin river — a river in SW Utah, NW Arizona, and SE Nevada, flowing SW and S to the Colorado River at Lake Mead. 200 miles (322 km) long.
- vitativeness — a fondness for life or the instinct of self-preservation
- vituperative — characterized by or of the nature of vituperation: vituperative remarks.
- waffle weave — a textile weave that produces a textured pattern resembling the surface of a waffle.
- wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
- water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
- wave cyclone — a cyclone that forms on a front and, in maturing, produces an increasingly sharp, wavelike deformation of the front.
- wave-and-pay — relating to a payment system that uses RFID technology to allow a customer to pay for goods by passing a card in front of a sensor
- 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.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- well-beloved — loved deeply and sincerely: my well-beloved fiancé.