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14-letter words containing e, l, v

  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valentinian ii — a.d. c371–392, emperor of the Western Roman Empire 375–392.
  • valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
  • value retailer — A value retailer is a retail outlet in which the premises and décor are without frills and where prices are cheaper.
  • valuer general — a state official who values properties for rating purposes
  • valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
  • van allen belt — either of two regions of high-energy-charged particles surrounding the earth, the inner region centered at an altitude of 2000 miles (3200 km) and the outer region at an altitude between 9000 and 12,000 miles (14,500 and 19,000 km).
  • van rensselaer — Kiliaen [kee-lee-ahn] /ˈki liˌɑn/ (Show IPA), 1595–1644, Dutch merchant: founder of Dutch West India Company 1621; large landowner in America, colonizing along the Hudson River (ancestor of Stephen Van Rensselaer).
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • 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.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
  • vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
  • vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
  • ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
  • venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
  • verisimilitude — the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
  • vernal equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • vestavia hills — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • 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.
  • viennese table — a dessert buffet, as at a reception, featuring a variety of fancy cakes, tarts, mousses, etc.
  • 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.
  • ville-de-paris — a department in N France. 41 sq. mi. (106 sq. km). Capital: Paris.
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