14-letter words containing v, o, a
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- 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.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- 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.
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- rancho cordova — a town in central California.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- 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
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- relativization — to regard as or make relative.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
- savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative