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11-letter words starting with v

  • vanity case — a small luggage bag or case for holding cosmetics or toiletries.
  • 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.
  • vanity unit — washstand
  • vapor cloud — A vapor cloud is vapor which has gathered in one place.
  • vapor phase — In its vapor phase a substance can be condensed to a liquid or to a solid by increasing its pressure without reducing the temperature.
  • vapor trail — contrail.
  • vaporimeter — an instrument for measuring vapor pressure or volume.
  • vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
  • vapour lock — a stoppage in a pipe carrying a liquid caused by a bubble of gas, esp such a stoppage caused by vaporization of the petrol in the pipe feeding the carburettor of an internal-combustion engine
  • vapouringly — in a boastful manner
  • variability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
  • variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • varicellate — having small varices, as certain shells.
  • varicelloid — resembling varicella.
  • varicellous — of or relating to varicella or chicken pox
  • varicolored — having various colors; variegated; motley: a varicolored print.
  • variegation — an act of variegating.
  • varley loop — a device containing a Wheatstone bridge, for comparing resistances and for locating faults in circuits.
  • varsovienne — a Polish dance
  • vascongadas — Basque Country
  • vascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • vascularize — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
  • vasculature — the arrangement of blood vessels in the body or a part of the body
  • vasculiform — shaped like a small vase or flowerpot
  • vasectomize — to perform a vasectomy on
  • vasodilator — a nerve or drug that causes vasodilatation.
  • vasopressin — Biochemistry. a peptide hormone, synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, that stimulates capillary muscles and reduces the flow of urine and increases its concentration.
  • vasopressor — a hormone, as epinephrine, or other agent that raises the blood pressure by causing contraction of the arteriole muscles, narrowing the arteriole passage.
  • vasospastic — of or relating to a vasospasm
  • vat receipt — a receipt showing details of VAT paid on a transaction, together with the VAT number
  • 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.
  • vectorscope — a waveform monitor which measures audio and video signals
  • vellicating — to pluck; twitch.
  • vellus hair — short fine unpigmented hair covering the human body
  • velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
  • velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
  • velvet bean — a vine, Mucuna deeringiana, of the legume family, having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods, grown in warm regions for forage or as an ornamental.
  • velvet stem — enoki.
  • velvetiness — the quality or state of being velvety
  • vendemiaire — (in the French Revolutionary calendar) the first month of the year, extending from September 22 to October 21.
  • venditation — a boastful or ostentatious display
  • venefically — in a venefic manner
  • venereology — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
  • venesection — phlebotomy.
  • venisection — phlebotomy.
  • venlafaxine — an oral antidepressant, C 17 H 27 NO 2 , that is thought to inhibit neuronal reabsorption of serotonin, norepinephrine, and possibly dopamine.
  • venographic — of or relating to venography
  • vent window — (on an automobile) a small, pivoting window fitted into a main side window to provide draft-free ventilation.
  • ventilating — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
  • ventilation — the act of ventilating.
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