14-letter words containing v, t
- antipositivist — Relating to antipositivism.
- antireflective — treated in some way to prevent reflection
- antiretroviral — inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates
- antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
- antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
- antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
- aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
- apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
- appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- area vitellina — the nonvascular part of the area opaca surrounding the area vasculosa.
- areal velocity — a measure of the velocity of one celestial body in orbit about another, equal to the area swept out per unit time by the vector joining the two bodies.
- asarah betevet — a Jewish fast day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tevet in memory of the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.
- assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
- asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
- astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
- atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
- attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
- auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
- augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
- autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
- autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
- autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
- autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
- availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
- avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
- ave atque vale — hail and farewell: from an ode of Catullus in commemoration of his dead brother
- aviation badge — wings.
- aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
- aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
- balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
- baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
- belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
- big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
- bitter cassava — a species of cassava (Manihot esculenta) whose poisonous roots when processed yield tapioca starch
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- canes venatici — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere near Ursa Major that contains the globular cluster M3 and the spiral whirlpool galaxy M51
- captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
- case sensitive — case sensitivity
- case-sensitive — In computing, if a written word such as a password is case-sensitive, it must be written in a particular form, for example using all capital letters or all small letters, in order for the computer to recognize it.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
- cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
- chauvinist pig — a sexist man
- chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts