14-letter words containing v, e, i, l
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
- supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
- survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
- swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- 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
- television set — appliance that receives tv signals
- 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 inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- 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
- the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
- to live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
- 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.
- transversality — the state of being transversal
- travel trailer — trailer (def 2).
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
- ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
- ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
- ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- 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
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unequivalently — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
- universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
- universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
- 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.
- unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
- unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
- vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- valentinian ii — a.d. c371–392, emperor of the Western Roman Empire 375–392.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- 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.