14-letter words containing v, e, c, t
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
- twelve o'clock — 12 noon, 1200 hours, midday
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
- 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.
- uncontroverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- 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.
- vector product — cross product.
- vena contracta — any of the locations in a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice where the cross section of the jet is at a minimum, especially the location of minimum cross section nearest the orifice.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- vitrescibility — the ability to be vitrified
- vivisectionist — a person who vivisects.
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- volksdeutscher — a member of the German people, especially one of a community having its home outside of Germany, usually in central or eastern Europe.
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
- volume control — switch used to adjust level of sound
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- watcom vx*rexx — (programming, tool) A visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with graphical user interfaces. It includes a project management facility, visual designer and an interactive source level debugger. Version 2.1 introduced the VX*REXX Client/Server Edition for client/server GUI application development on OS/2 by incorporating database objects. Using IBM's DRDA support on OS/2, users can access DB2 for MVS, DB2/400 for AS/400, and DB2/VSE and VM (SQL/DS) for VM and VSE. Also supported are Watcom SQL and ODBC-enabled databases. Since the VX*REXX visual development environment is based on IBM's object-oriented SOM technology, VX*REXX applications are open and extensible through the addition of new SOM objects.
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.
- with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.