20-letter words containing v, i, o, l, a, c
- slow-scan television — a technique or system in which an image is scanned electronically more slowly than is normally done in order to produce images, especially of still pictures, that can be transmitted economically, as over a telephone line, and displayed on a television screen.
- small craft advisory — a U.S. National Weather Service advisory of sustained winds, over coastal and inland waters, with speeds of 20–33 knots (23–38 mph, 10–17 m/sec). Regional NWS offices have discretion over the choice of the lower limit.
- societal development — the formation and transformation of social life, customs, institutions, etc.
- special boat service — a unit of the Royal Marines specializing in reconnaissance and sabotage
- surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
- television broadcast — sth shown on tv
- thermal conductivity — the amount of heat per unit time per unit area that can be conducted through a plate of unit thickness of a given material, the faces of the plate differing by one unit of temperature.
- vertical combination — the integration within one company of individual businesses working separately in related phases of the production and sale of a product.
- vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
- vertical integration — the joining together of all companies or firms involved in manufacturing a product into one company or firm
- vesicular stomatitis — a disease of horses, swine, and cattle, similar in its symptoms to foot-and-mouth disease, and characterized by blisters on the lips, snout, and oral mucous membranes.
- vocalic alliteration — the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration) as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) as in each to all. Compare consonance (def 4a).
- vocational education — educational training that provides practical experience in a particular occupational field, as agriculture, home economics, or industry.
- western civilization — European culture, thought
- wide-angle converter — a person or thing that converts.