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15-letter words containing v, e, l, u

  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
  • ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
  • ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
  • unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
  • unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • up one's sleeve — secretly ready
  • upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
  • utility vehicle — A utility vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
  • value-added tax — an excise tax based on the value added to a product at each stage of production or distribution: value added is arrived at by subtracting from the total value of the product at the end of each production or distibution stage the value of the goods bought at its inception. Abbreviation: VAT.
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vascular tissue — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • venture capital — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • venus-s--girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
  • vincent de paulSaint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
  • viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
  • virtual machine — Also called system virtual machine. a self-contained operating environment that behaves as if it is a separate computer, with no access to the host operating system: When an application runs in a virtual machine, there is little chance that it will damage files or applications in the host system.
  • virtual reality — a realistic and immersive simulation of a three-dimensional environment, created using interactive software and hardware, and experienced or controlled by movement of the body. Abbreviation: VR.
  • virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
  • virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
  • visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
  • vitreous silica — silica glass
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
  • volume velocity — the movement caused by a sound wave of a unit volume of a sound-transmitting medium through a unit area per unit of time.
  • volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
  • volunteer state — Tennessee (used as a nickname).
  • voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
  • well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
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