15-letter words containing v, e, t, o, i
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
- store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
- television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
- television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
- thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
- ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- to give vent to — If you give vent to your feelings, you express them forcefully.
- to have it made — If you say that someone has it made or has got it made, you mean that they are certain to be rich or successful.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- unauthoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- uncommunicative — not inclined to talk or disclose information; reserved; taciturn.
- 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
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- 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.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.