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14-letter words containing t, r, e, v, i

  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel trailer — trailer (def 2).
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • trois-rivieres — French name of Three Rivers.
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • unremunerative — not rewarding or paying for work or service, etc
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • value retailer — A value retailer is a retail outlet in which the premises and décor are without frills and where prices are cheaper.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • 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.
  • venturi (tube) — a short tube with a constricted, throatlike passage that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of a fluid conveyed through it: used to measure the flow of a fluid, to operate instruments, as in aircraft, to regulate the mixture in a carburetor, etc.
  • verisimilitude — the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
  • vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
  • 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.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
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