17-letter words containing l, d, r, i, v
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- venereal diseases — sexually transmitted disease. Abbreviation: VD.
- vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
- vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- visible radiation — electromagnetic radiation that causes the sensation of sight; light. It has wavelengths between about 380 and 780 nanometres
- visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
- voidable contract — a contract or agreement that is capable of being made of no legal effect or made void
- vulcan death grip — (jargon) A variant of Vulcan nerve pinch derived from a Star Trek classic epsisode where a non-existant "Vulcan death grip" was used to fool Romulans that Spock had killed Kirk.
- wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.