12-letter words starting with v
- 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
- via dolorosa — (initial capital letters) Christ's route to Golgotha.
- vibratiuncle — a slight vibration
- vicar choral — a member of the clergy or a layperson in a cathedral who sings certain parts of the service.
- vicar forane — dean1 (def 2b).
- vice admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-admiral — a naval officer next in rank below an admiral.
- vice-captain — a person who deputizes for a captain and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- vice-premier — a person who deputizes for a premier and serves in his or her place during his or her absence or indisposition
- vicissitudes — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- victoria day — (in Canada) the first Monday preceding May 25, observed as a national holiday.
- victorianism — the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
- victoriously — having achieved a victory; conquering; triumphant: our victorious army.
- victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- video arcade — A video arcade is a place where you can play video games on machines which work when you put money in them.
- video camera — a handheld or mounted portable camera intended for recording moving images in digital memory or on videotape.
- video gaming — the playing of video or computer games.
- video jockey — a person who plays, announces, and comments on videocassette recordings, as on a music video broadcast or at a discotheque.
- video memory — computer memory used for the processing and displaying of images
- video piracy — the unauthorized or prohibited use of audio-visual works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works
- video player — VCR: videotape recorder
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.