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14-letter words containing a, d, v, e, n, t

  • gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • maldevelopment — malformation
  • mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
  • medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
  • meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
  • mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nonradioactive — not radioactive
  • northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • unindividuated — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • venetian blind — a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.
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