14-letter words containing u, n, v, a, l
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- valetudinarian — an invalid.
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
- valuer general — a state official who values properties for rating purposes
- vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- vernal equinox — the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of approximately equal length all over the earth and occurring about March 21 (vernal equinox or spring equinox) and September 22 (autumnal equinox)
- vertical union — industrial union.
- vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
- vital function — any function of the body that is essential for life.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.