14-letter words containing a, v, e, s, t
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- objective case — objective (def 2a).
- objective-case — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- over-advertise — to advertise too much
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overestimating — Present participle of overestimate.
- overestimation — An excessive estimation.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
- passive safety — the practice of taking measures to reduce the consequences of accidents, as opposed to attempting to avoid them altogether
- passive-matrix — of or relating to a relatively low-resolution liquid-crystal display (LCD) with low contrast, a type of flat-panel display.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- peace activist — someone who advocates for peace or an end to conflicts
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- 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.
- re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- revenue stream — method of income
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.