14-letter words containing a, c, t, i, v
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
- victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
- victoria cross — a British decoration awarded to soldiers and sailors for acts of conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy. Abbreviation: V.C.
- victoria falls — a major waterfall on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, on the Zambezi River. Height: about 108 m (355 ft). Width: about 1400 m (4500 ft)
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
- villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- 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.
- visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
- vital capacity — the greatest amount of air that can be forced from the lungs after maximum inhalation.
- vital function — any function of the body that is essential for life.
- vitalistically — from a vitalistic point of view
- viticulturally — in a viticultural manner
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- volcaniclastic — pyroclastic.
- volcanoclastic — pyroclastic.
- voltaic couple — a pair of substances, as two different metals, that when placed in a proper solution produces an electromotive force by chemical action.
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- weaver's hitch — sheet bend.