15-letter words containing e, v, c, t, i, o
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- uncommunicative — not inclined to talk or disclose information; reserved; taciturn.
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
- vine technology — (company) A company which provides professional consulting services in the areas of networking, real-time systems, graphic arts, and web server advertisement space. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
- viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
- vitreous silica — silica glass
- voice synthesis — the artificial production of the human voice
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes
- voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.