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14-letter words containing i, n, v, g

  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • 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.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • unconvincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
  • 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.
  • vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
  • 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.
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
  • vernier engine — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
  • vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • 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.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
  • viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
  • virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
  • virginia fence — snake fence.
  • virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
  • visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
  • vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
  • vital staining — the technique of treating living cells and tissues with dyes that do not immediately kill them, facilitating observation with a microscope
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • vitilitigation — contention or backbiting
  • voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
  • volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
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