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14-letter words containing v, i, t, e, l

  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • television set — appliance that receives tv signals
  • terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • 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
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • to live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel trailer — trailer (def 2).
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
  • unequivalently — equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valentinian ii — a.d. c371–392, emperor of the Western Roman Empire 375–392.
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • value retailer — A value retailer is a retail outlet in which the premises and décor are without frills and where prices are cheaper.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • 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 dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
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