14-letter words containing c, o, v
- 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.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
- tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
- twelve o'clock — 12 noon, 1200 hours, midday
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- uncontroverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- unconvincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
- under cover of — concealed
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- varicose veins — swollen blood vessels
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- vector product — cross product.
- 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.
- vena contracta — any of the locations in a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice where the cross section of the jet is at a minimum, especially the location of minimum cross section nearest the orifice.
- 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
- vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
- vernix caseosa — the fatty matter, consisting chiefly of dead epidermal cells and sebaceous secretions, covering the skin of a fetus and newborn.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- vesa local bus — (hardware, standard) (VL, VLB) A local bus defined by the Video Electronics Standards Association, mostly used in personal computers based on the Intel 486. See also PCI.
- vibropac block — a precast concrete building block
- 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.