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14-letter words containing v, e, r, c

  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • 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
  • 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.
  • under cover of — concealed
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
  • vacuum cleaner — an electrical appliance for cleaning carpets, floors, etc., by suction.
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
  • van conversion — van2 (def 4).
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • varicose veins — swollen blood vessels
  • 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.
  • velasco ibarra — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
  • vernix caseosa — the fatty matter, consisting chiefly of dead epidermal cells and sebaceous secretions, covering the skin of a fetus and newborn.
  • 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.
  • vice-principal — a deputy principal in a school, college, etc
  • vicious circle — Logic. (in demonstration) the use of each of two propositions to establish the other. (in definition) the use of each of two terms to define the other.
  • vickers number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Vickers test) in which the sample is indented under a known pressure by the point of a diamond and the surface area of the indentation is divided into the amount of pressure applied.
  • 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 recorder — A video recorder or a video cassette recorder is the same as a VCR.
  • villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
  • villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
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