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14-letter words containing v, a, g, i, l, e

  • outlet village — a collection of shops or outlets where manufacturers sell their own branded goods, often at discounted prices
  • overgeneralize — to draw an overly general conclusion from (something)
  • overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
  • police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • 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
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • 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.
  • vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • 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.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • village school — a school in a village
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
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