16-letter words containing s, e, v, n, t
- take one's leave — to go away; depart
- texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
- thaddeus stevens — Alfred, 1817–75, English painter and sculptor.
- the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
- the noes have it — there is a majority of votes in the negative
- the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
- the silver ferns — the women's international netball team of New Zealand
- the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
- thieves' kitchen — a thieves' hideout
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- tinnevelly senna — any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
- transverse colon — the middle portion of the colon, lying across the upper abdominal cavity between the ascending colon on the right and the descending colon on the left.
- transverse flute — the normal orchestral flute, as opposed to the recorder (or fipple flute)
- travel insurance — insurance which covers losses that may be incurred while travelling, such as medical expenses, flight cancellations, lost luggage, etc
- unattractiveness — the condition of not appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc
- unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
- united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
- universalization — to make universal.
- unrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- vasoconstrictive — causing vasoconstriction.
- vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
- vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
- vestibular nerve — the part of the auditory nerve in the inner ear that carries sensory information related to body equilibrium.
- vesuvianite jade — a green variety of vesuvianite, used as a gem: not a true jade.
- viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
- victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
- vincent's angina — a disease characterized by ulceration of the mucosa of the tonsils, pharynx, and mouth, by the presence of abundant bacilli and spirochetes, and by the development of a membrane.
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
- visiting teacher — a teacher in a public school system, assigned to give home instruction to sick or disabled pupils.
- visual interface — (tool, text) (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
- visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
- visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
- women's movement — a movement to combat sexual discrimination and to gain full legal, economic, vocational, educational, and social rights and opportunities for women, equal to those of men.