13-letter words starting with v
- violoncellist — cellist.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virgin forest — a forest in its natural state, before it has been explored or exploited by man
- virginia city — a mining town in W Nevada: famous for the discovery of the rich Comstock silver lode 1859.
- virginia dare — Virginia, 1587–? first child born of English parents in the Western Hemisphere.
- virginia deer — the common white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, of eastern North America.
- virginia pine — a pine tree, Pinus virginiana, of the eastern U.S., that grows in poor soil and has needles in groups of two.
- virginia plan — a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature.
- virginia rail — a long-billed American rail, Rallus limicola, having blackish and reddish-brown plumage.
- virginia reel — an American country dance in which the partners start by facing each other in two lines.
- virginiamycin — any of various antibacterial substances derived from the bacterium Streptomyces virginiae, used in antibiotics and in animal feed as a growth stimulant.
- virgo cluster — a cluster of about 2500 galaxies in the constellation Virgo, the nearest cluster to our galaxy.
- virgo intacta — a girl or woman whose hymen has not been broken
- virologically — in a manner relating to virology
- virtual human — a computer-generated moving image of a human being, used esp in films as an extra in large crowd scenes
- virtual image — an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point
- visakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- visceral arch — Embryology. branchial arch.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visible light — the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans perceive
- vision mixing — the work of selecting and manipulating the television signals from cameras, film, and other sources, to make the composite programme
- visiting card — calling card (def 1).
- visiting team — sports team playing away from home ground
- visitor's tax — a tax that visitors to a place must pay
- visual acuity — acuteness of the vision as determined by a comparison with the normal ability to define certain letters at a given distance, usually 20 feet (6 meters). Abbreviation: V.
- visual artist — someone involved in the arts of painting, sculpting, photography, etc, as opposed to music, drama, and literature
- visual binary — a binary star having components that are sufficiently separated to be resolved by a telescope.
- visual cortex — the portion of the cerebral cortex of the brain that receives and processes impulses from the optic nerves.
- visual effect — Usually, visual effects. a special effect that is added to a film or video in post-production, as computer-generated imagery. Abbreviation: VFX.
- visual foxpro — (database) A Microsoft database derived from Fox Software's FoxPRO.
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- visualization — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
- viticulturist — the culture or cultivation of grapevines; grape-growing.
- vitreous body — a transparent gelatinous substance, permeated by fine fibrils, that fills the interior of the eyeball between the lens and the retina
- vitrification — act or process of vitrifying; state of being vitrified.
- vivaciousness — lively; animated; spirited: a vivacious folk dance.
- vivax malaria — the most common form of malaria, caused by the protozoan Plasmodium vivax and marked by the occurrence of attacks every other day.
- vivisectorium — the location where vivisection takes place
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- vocationalism — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
- vocationalist — the practice or policy of requiring vocational training of all college or high-school students.
- voice over ip — (communications) (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
- volcanic bomb — bomb (def 3).
- volcanic cone — a conical hill produced by volcanic eruption of ash, cinders, or lava.
- volcanic neck — neck (def 14).
- volcanic rock — rock solidified on Earth's surface
- volcanic tuff — tuff2 .
- volcanic-neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- volcanologist — the scientific study of volcanoes and volcanic phenomena.
- volksdeutsche — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.