12-letter words containing v, e, n, l, a
- unforgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- ungalvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- ungovernable — impossible to govern, rule, or restrain; uncontrollable.
- uninvestable — that can be invested.
- universalism — universal character; universality.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.
- universality — the character or state of being universal; existence or prevalence everywhere.
- universalize — to make universal.
- unobservable — incapable of observation; imperceptible
- unpavilioned — not provided with a pavilion
- unprevailing — lacking force, not effective
- unrelievable — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- unreprovable — not able to be reproved, reproached, or criticized
- unresolvable — not able to be resolved or brought to a satisfactory resolution
- unrevealable — not able to be revealed or made known
- unreviewable — a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
- unsurvivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- unventilated — not having stale or foul air driven out
- unverbalized — not verbalized or put into words
- unverifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- unvoyageable — not able to be sailed or otherwise journeyed over; untraversable; innavigable
- unvulnerable — invulnerable
- unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
- vaginicoline — living in a sheath
- val-de-marne — a department in N France. 94 sq. mi. (243 sq. km). Capital: Créteil.
- valenciennes — a city in N France, SE of Lille.
- valetudinary — valetudinarian.
- valle-inclán — Rámon María del (raˈmɔn maˈria del). 1866–1936, Spanish novelist and dramatist. His works include the novel Tirano Banderas (1926) and the satirical play Don Friolera's Horns (1925)
- valuableness — having considerable monetary worth; costing or bringing a high price: a valuable painting; a valuable crop.
- valve bounce — A valve bounce is the bouncing of a poppet valve on its seat when it is closing.
- valve spring — a helical spring used to hold closed a valve in the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine
- valve timing — Valve timing is the exact timing of the opening and closing of the valves in a piston engine.
- van de velde — Adriaen. 1636–72, Dutch painter of landscapes with animals and figures
- vanilla bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanilla-bean — any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
- vanity plate — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- variableness — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- vaudevillian — Also, vaudevillist. a person who writes for or performs in vaudeville.
- vegetational — all the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole: the vegetation of the Nile valley.
- velarization — to pronounce with velar articulation.
- velocipedean — someone who rides a velocipede
- velvet plant — a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- venerability — commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character: a venerable member of Congress.
- ventral root — a nerve fiber bundle that emerges from either side of the spinal cord and joins with a complementary bundle to form each spinal nerve in the series of spinal nerves: the root at the rear of the spinal cord (dorsal root or sensory root) conveys sensations to the central nervous system, and the root at the front (ventral root or motor root) conveys impulses to the muscles.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.