14-letter words containing v, o, a
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- exploitatively — In an exploitative manner.
- exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
- false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- galveston plan — commission plan.
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- gavel-to-gavel — from the opening to the closing of a formal session or series of sessions: gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Congressional hearing.
- gentian violet — a dye derived from rosaniline, used in chemistry as an indicator and in medicine as a fungicide, bactericide, anthelmintic, and in the treatment of burns.
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- giovanni leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
- global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.