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14-letter words containing a, v, e, r

  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • 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?
  • george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • grease remover — a substance that removes grease
  • 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.
  • greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
  • half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
  • half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
  • 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.
  • hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • have hard ears — to be stubbornly disobedient
  • have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • have the grace — to be so aware of what is proper as (to do something)
  • have the heart — to have the necessary will, callousness, etc (to do something)
  • health service — system of medical care
  • health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
  • heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
  • heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • 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
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
  • hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
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