19-letter words containing v, o, r, s
- stratford-upon-avon — town in S Warwickshire, England, on the Avon: birthplace & burial place of Shakespeare: pop. of county district (called Stratford-on-Avon) 106,000
- subtractive process — a process of color photography in which the colors are formed by combination of cyan, yellow, and magenta lights.
- supreme de volaille — suprême (def 2).
- the open university — (in Britain) a university founded in 1969 for mature students studying by television and radio lectures, correspondence courses, local counselling, and summer schools
- the provisional ira — the unofficial faction of the IRA that became increasingly dominant following a split in 1969. The Provisional movement remained committed to a policy of terrorism until its ceasefires of the mid-1990s
- the volunteer state — a nickname for Tennessee
- the wolverine state — a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes area of the north central US
- theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
- throw sth overboard — If you throw something overboard, for example an idea or suggestion, you reject it completely.
- throw to the wolves — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- to reserve judgment — If you reserve judgment on something, you refuse to give an opinion about it until you know more about it.
- university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
- vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
- venus of willendorf — a village in NE Austria, near Krems: site of an Aurignacian settlement where a 4½ inches (11 cm) limestone statuette (Venus of Willendorf) was found.
- verdigris toadstool — a basidiomycetous fungus, Stropharia aeruginosa, having a distinctive and unusual blue-green cap and paler shaggy stem
- versa module europa — (hardware) (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
- vicariate apostolic — a district under the jurisdiction of a vicar apostolic.
- volumetric analysis — determination of the concentration, by volume, of a substance in a solution, as by titration.
- waste heat recovery — the use of heat that is produced in a thermodynamic cycle, as in a furnace, combustion engine, etc, in another process, such as heating feedwater or air
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998