14-letter words containing o, v, e
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- vicious circle — Logic. (in demonstration) the use of each of two propositions to establish the other. (in definition) the use of each of two terms to define the other.
- 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.
- video recorder — A video recorder or a video cassette recorder is the same as a VCR.
- vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- 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.
- 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.
- viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- virtual memory — 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.
- vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
- vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
- 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
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
- volume control — switch used to adjust level of sound
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- 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.
- webster groves — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- well motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- well-conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
- well-conserved — to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
- well-developed — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
- well-motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
- with a view to — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
- worms eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
- yeoman service — excellent service
- you never know — You say 'You never know' or 'One never knows' to indicate that it is not definite or certain what will happen in the future, and to suggest that there is some hope that things will turn out well.
- your seventies — the ages between 70–79
- youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people
- zenaida (dove) — either of two wild doves, (Zenaida aurita) of Florida and the Caribbean, or (Z. asiatica) of the SW U.S. to Chile