14-letter words containing v, g, u
- proving ground — any place, context, or area for testing something, as a piece of scientific equipment, a theory, etc.
- quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
- the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
- ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unconvincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- 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.
- vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
- vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
- valuer general — a state official who values properties for rating purposes
- vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
- 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.
- vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
- vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.