14-letter words containing w, v
- alfalfa weevil — a European weevil, Hypera postica, now also widely distributed in North America, that is an important pest, primarily of alfalfa, in both the larval and adult stages.
- alive and well — If you say that someone or something is alive and well, you are emphasizing that they continue to survive.
- allhallows eve — Halloween.
- avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
- avogadro's law — the principle that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure
- backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
- 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
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- dover's powder — a powder containing ipecac and opium, used as an anodyne, diaphoretic, and antispasmodic.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- exit interview — an interview held with an employee who is leaving an organization in order to learn the employee's opinion of his or her time spent at the organization, reasons for departure, etc
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- greater weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- have a down on — to bear ill will towards (someone or something)
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- new providence — an island in the N Bahamas. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- over-awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
- overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- permanent wave — existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
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