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14-letter words containing a, v, i, n, d

  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vasodilatation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • venetian blind — a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vinca alkaloid — any of a group of alkaloids obtained from the periwinkle Vinca rosea, such as vinblastine and vincristine, that interfere with cell division and are used in the treatment of cancer
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
  • zenaida (dove) — either of two wild doves, (Zenaida aurita) of Florida and the Caribbean, or (Z. asiatica) of the SW U.S. to Chile
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