13-letter words containing v
- field of view — field (def 13).
- field service — military service performed in the field
- field servoid — (jargon, abuse) /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
- fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
- film festival — a festival devoted to film
- fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
- five-and-dime — a shop that sells a wide variety of things at a cheap price
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
- fleming valve — (formerly) a diode.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- floorcovering — A covering for a floor.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- food additive — additive (def 4).
- for values of — (jargon) A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical random numbers as placeholders for variables. "The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42". "There are 69 ways to leave your lover, for 69 = 50". This is especially likely when the speaker has uttered a random number and realises that it was not recognised as such, but even "non-random" numbers are occasionally used in this fashion. A related joke is that pi equals 3 - for small values of pi and large values of 3. This usage probably derives from the programming language MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder), an ALGOL-like language that was the most common choice among mainstream (non-hacker) users at MIT in the mid-1960s. It had a control structure FOR VALUES OF X = 3, 7, 99 DO ... that would repeat the indicated instructions for each value in the list (unlike the usual FOR that generates an arithmetic sequence of values). MAD is long extinct, but similar for-constructs still flourish (e.g. in Unix's shell languages).
- foramen ovale — the small, oval opening in the wall that separates the atria of the heart in a normal fetus: it allows blood to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs until the time of birth when it gradually closes up
- forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- formicivorous — ant-eating.
- fort victoria — a former name of Masvingo.
- forty-seventh — next after the forty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 47.
- fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
- free delivery — the delivery of mail directly to the recipient's address without charge to the recipient: Before free delivery people had to pick up their mail at the post office or pay a letter carrier to deliver it.
- free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
- french endive — endive (def 2).
- frequentative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing repetition of an action.
- friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
- frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
- fuerteventura — a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1660 sq. km).
- full-flavored — Full-flavored food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- furniture van — a van designed to move the furniture of a house, office, etc, to another place
- galvanic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
- galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
- galvanisation — Alternative form of galvanization.
- galvanization — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- galvanometers — Plural form of galvanometer.
- galvanometric — Of or pertaining to galvanometry.
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
- geonavigation — navigation by means of observations of terrestrial features.
- german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
- gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
- get a move on — to pass from one place or position to another.
- get over with — If you want to get something unpleasant over with, you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.
- give a leg up — to help to mount
- give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
- give birth to — an act or instance of being born: the day of his birth.
- give evidence — testify in a court of law