14-letter words containing a, d, v
- have a mind to — think about doing
- have hard ears — to be stubbornly disobedient
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- 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.
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- inadvisability — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- individualised — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- individualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualise.
- individualists — Plural form of individualist.
- individualized — Give an individual character to.
- individualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualize.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
- leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- leave for dead — to abandon
- leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
- livia drusilla — 58 bc–29 ad, Roman noblewoman: wife (from 39 bc) of Emperor Augustus and mother of Emperor Tiberius
- living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- major delivery — (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
- 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 greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- 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.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- 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.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.