13-letter words containing p, e, v
- vanity plates — a vehicle license plate bearing a combination of letters or numbers requested by the licensee, as a name or occupation.
- vantage point — a position or place that affords a wide or advantageous perspective; viewpoint: to survey a valley from the vantage point of a high hill.
- vapor barrier — a layer of material, as plastic film or foil, used to protect installed insulation by retarding the transmission of moisture from the interior environment.
- vapor tension — vapor pressure.
- vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- variable type — type that can be varied to fit a page, screen, etc
- velvet carpet — a carpet or rug of pile weave resembling Wilton.
- venus flytrap — firewall machine
- vesica piscis — an elliptical figure in pointed form, usually one made by the intersection of two arcs and used, especially in early Christian art, as an emblem of Christ.
- vicente lopez — a city in E central Argentina, N of Buenos Aires.
- vide ut supra — (used to direct a reader to a specified place in a text) see as above
- vino de pasto — a pale, dry sherry of Spain.
- vinyl polymer — any of a group of compounds derived by polymerization from vinyl compounds, as vinyl acetate and styrene.
- violin spider — brown recluse spider.
- vip treatment — preferential or special treatment, as or as if given to famous or rich people
- virginia pine — a pine tree, Pinus virginiana, of the eastern U.S., that grows in poor soil and has needles in groups of two.
- visceroptosis — a downward displacement of the intestine
- visual purple — rhodopsin.
- vivisepulture — the burying of something while still alive
- voice over ip — (communications) (VoIP) Any technology providing voice telephony services over IP, including CODECs, streaming protocols and session control. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the Internet, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The ITU standard is H.323, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the IETF has developed the much simpler SIP to solve the session control problem and MGCP/Megaco to solve the gateway problem.
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- web developer — a person or company that develops World Wide Web software applications, or that creates and maintains websites.
- well-provided — having been furnished or supplied with a sufficient amount
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.