14-letter words containing c, i, v, l, e
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- silver service — formal method of serving dinner
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
- televangelical — relating to televangelism
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- velasco ibarra — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.
- 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
- venereological — of or relating to the study of sexually transmitted diseases
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- vicious circle — Logic. (in demonstration) the use of each of two propositions to establish the other. (in definition) the use of each of two terms to define the other.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- village school — a school in a village
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- vincennes lisp — (language) (VLISP) A dialect of Lisp resulting from development, starting in 1971, of Lisp interpreters and compilers at the University of Paris VIII - Vincennes. VLISP interpreters and compilers were designed to run on small computers.
- vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- vitrescibility — the ability to be vitrified
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.