13-letter words starting with v
- variety store — a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
- vasa murrhina — an American art glass, consisting of colored glass dusted with flakes or grains of metal and flashed with clear glass.
- vasco da gama — Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- vascularities — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- vashon island — an island in Puget Sound, W central Washington, between Seattle and Tacoma. 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km).
- vasoinhibitor — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- vasostimulant — stimulating the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- vasovasostomy — the reversal of a vasectomy, performed by surgical reconnection of the severed ends of the vas deferens.
- vaunt-courier — a person who goes in advance, as a herald.
- vcc filtering — (electronics) A technique for reducing the amount of Radio Frequency Interference spread via power supply connections. VCC is a common name for the non-ground power supply line in circuits based on bipolar transistors. When part of a circuit generates lots of radio-frequency noise, that portion of the power plane can be isolated from the rest of the circuit and power delivered to it via a low pass filter, usually a PI filter, as shown in the diagram below.
- vectorization — the process of converting from a bitmap image to a vector representation
- vegetable fat — oil from plant source
- vegetable oil — any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- vegetarianism — the beliefs or practices of a vegetarian.
- veggie burger — A veggie burger is a flat round cake of food made from vegetables or beans. You broil or fry it.
- velikiye luki — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Pskov.
- velocity head — the velocity of a fluid expressed in terms of the head or static pressure required to produce that velocity. It equals ρν/2 where ρ is the density of the fluid and ν is the velocity. In hydrology the density of water can be written 1/G where G is the gravitational constant
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
- velvet scoter — a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
- venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
- venereologist — the branch of medicine dealing with the study and treatment of venereal, or sexually transmitted, disease.
- venetian ball — a small glass ball containing colorful objects or pieces, used chiefly as a paperweight.
- venetian blue — a strong blue similar to cobalt blue.
- venetian door — a doorway having a form similar to that of a Palladian window.
- venire facias — a writ directing the appropriate official to summon a jury.
- ventriloquial — of, relating to, or using ventriloquism.
- ventriloquism — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- ventriloquist — a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
- ventriloquize — to produce (sounds) in the manner of a ventriloquist
- ventriloquous — of or relating to ventriloquism or a ventriloquist
- ventrolateral — of, relating to, or affecting the front and side.
- venture scout — a young man or woman, aged 16–20, who is a member of the senior branch of the Scouts
- venturesomely — in a venturesome manner
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- veraciousness — characterized by truthfulness; true, accurate, or honest in content: a veracious statement; a veracious account.
- verbalization — to express in words: He couldn't verbalize his feelings.
- verbigeration — the condition or instances of repeating the same word or sentence against one's will as a symptom of a psychiatric disorder
- vercelli book — a codex of Old English poems and sermons found in the chapter house at Vercelli.
- vercingetorix — died 45? b.c, Gallic chieftain conquered by Caesar.
- verifiability — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- verkhneudinsk — former name of Ulan Ude.
- vermiculation — to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
- vernacularism — a vernacular word or expression.
- vernacularist — someone who uses vernacular speech
- vernacularity — the quality or state of being vernacular
- vernacularize — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vernalization — to shorten the growth period of (a plant) by chilling or other special treatment of it, its seeds, or its bulbs.
- vernier scale — Also, vernier scale. a small, movable, graduated scale running parallel to the fixed graduated scale of a sextant, theodolite, barometer, etc., and used for measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale.
- vernis martin — a finish for furniture, invented in France in the 18th century in imitation of Chinese lacquer.