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14-letter words containing v, l, i, s, n

  • 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.
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • trial division — trial department
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
  • universal soul — Brahman in its aspect as the sacred syllable Om, the eternal and spiritual principle that permeates the universe
  • 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.
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • unvanquishable — not able to be vanquished or overcome; unconquerable; undefeatable
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
  • valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vasodilatation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
  • 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.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • 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.
  • viennese table — a dessert buffet, as at a reception, featuring a variety of fancy cakes, tarts, mousses, etc.
  • villa cisneros — former name of Dakhla (def 2).
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • vincennes lisp — (language)   (VLISP) A dialect of Lisp resulting from development, starting in 1971, of Lisp interpreters and compilers at the University of Paris VIII - Vincennes. VLISP interpreters and compilers were designed to run on small computers.
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • 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
  • vital staining — the technique of treating living cells and tissues with dyes that do not immediately kill them, facilitating observation with a microscope
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
  • volcaniclastic — pyroclastic.
  • volcanoclastic — pyroclastic.
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
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