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15-letter words containing l, o, v, e

  • television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
  • trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
  • twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
  • twelve-tone row — tone row.
  • ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
  • ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • 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
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
  • up one's sleeve — secretly ready
  • variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
  • varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • 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.
  • vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.
  • vice chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
  • vice-chancellor — a substitute, deputy, or subordinate chancellor.
  • victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
  • village college — a centre, often for a group of villages, with educational and recreational facilities for the whole neighbourhood
  • villeda morales — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909?–71, Honduran diplomat and statesman: president 1957–63.
  • vine phylloxera — a homopterous insect, Phylloxera vitifolia, typically feeding on vine juices
  • 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]>.
  • viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
  • virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
  • virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
  • visible exports — goods sold to a foreign country or countries
  • visible horizon — horizon (def 1).
  • visible imports — products that a company or country buys from other countries
  • vitreous silica — silica glass
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
  • voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
  • 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.
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