15-letter words containing v, f
- for the love of — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- in the event of — something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- inoffensiveness — The state or condition of being inoffensive.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
- java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- leave the field — to back out of a competition, contest, etc
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
- negative profit — a financial loss
- node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
- non-informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- nonfermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.