14-letter words containing r, i, v, e, c, a
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- 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.
- 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 angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
- vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
- 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.
- villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- virginia fence — snake fence.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- warning device — alarm or danger signal
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- yeoman service — excellent service