14-letter words containing v, i, r, g, n, s
- semi-evergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- 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).
- vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
- 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.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.