These are the meanings of the letters VENTRILOCUTION when you unscramble them.
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Contortive (a.)
Expressing contortion.
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Contrition (n.)
The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.
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Contrition (n.)
The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to God; humble penitence; through repentance.
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Involution (n.)
The act of involving or infolding.
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Involution (n.)
The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
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Involution (n.)
That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.
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Involution (n.)
The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.
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Involution (n.)
The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.
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Involution (n.)
The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.
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Involution (n.)
The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.
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Revolution (n.)
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
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Revolution (n.)
Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral.
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Revolution (n.)
The space measured by the regular return of a revolving body; the period made by the regular recurrence of a measure of time, or by a succession of similar events.
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Revolution (n.)
The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according as the point of return or completion has a fixed relation to the year, the anomaly, the nodes, the stars, or the tropics; as, the revolution of the earth about the sun; the revolution of the moon about the earth.
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Revolution (n.)
The motion of a point, line, or surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the revolution of a semicircle about the diameter generates a sphere.
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Revolution (n.)
A total or radical change; as, a revolution in one's circumstances or way of living.
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Revolution (n.)
A fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed.
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Ventriculi (pl. )
of Ventriculus