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14-letter words containing va

  • private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • private treaty — a property sale based on terms resulting from a conference between buyer and seller.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • rancho cordova — a town in central California.
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
  • survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
  • szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unavailability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
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