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14-letter words containing v, s, i, g

  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
  • survivor guilt — feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • 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.
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • 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.
  • venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
  • 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.
  • vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
  • village school — a school in a village
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
  • virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
  • virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
  • visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
  • 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.
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