14-letter words containing v, i, a, o, c
- police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- 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
- transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- 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 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.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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