14-letter words containing e, v, o, c, a
- 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
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- village school — a school in a village
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- 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.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
- watcom vx*rexx — (programming, tool) A visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with graphical user interfaces. It includes a project management facility, visual designer and an interactive source level debugger. Version 2.1 introduced the VX*REXX Client/Server Edition for client/server GUI application development on OS/2 by incorporating database objects. Using IBM's DRDA support on OS/2, users can access DB2 for MVS, DB2/400 for AS/400, and DB2/VSE and VM (SQL/DS) for VM and VSE. Also supported are Watcom SQL and ODBC-enabled databases. Since the VX*REXX visual development environment is based on IBM's object-oriented SOM technology, VX*REXX applications are open and extensible through the addition of new SOM objects.
- wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
- yeoman service — excellent service