14-letter words containing e, v, i, n, c
- 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 sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- 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 angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- 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.
- vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- 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.
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- virginia fence — snake fence.
- vivisectionist — a person who vivisects.
- voice response — output of information from a computer system in the form of speech rather than displayed text
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- wave mechanics — a form of quantum mechanics formulated in terms of a wave equation, as the Schrödinger equation.
- well-conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- well-evidenced — that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
- with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- yeoman service — excellent service