14-letter words containing v, e, n, i, t
- to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
- 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.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transversality — the state of being transversal
- travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
- ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- 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.
- 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.
- unequivalently — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
- 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.
- unindividuated — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- 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.
- universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- unremunerative — not rewarding or paying for work or service, etc
- 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.
- valetudinarian — an invalid.
- vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- venetian blind — a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
- venturi (tube) — a short tube with a constricted, throatlike passage that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of a fluid conveyed through it: used to measure the flow of a fluid, to operate instruments, as in aircraft, to regulate the mixture in a carburetor, etc.
- 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.
- vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
- 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.
- vexed question — an issue that is much debated and discussed
- 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.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
- viennese table — a dessert buffet, as at a reception, featuring a variety of fancy cakes, tarts, mousses, etc.
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- 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.
- visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit