14-letter words containing a, v, e, s
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- 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.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- 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.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- 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.
- metanarratives — Plural form of metanarrative.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- nativity scene — a set of figures displayed at Christmas as an artistic representation of the birth of Jesus Christ
- nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- 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 year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-aggressive — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- nonacquisitive — not acquisitive
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- 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.
- oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.