14-letter words containing a, v, i, n, d
- 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.
- 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.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- non-validation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonradioactive — not radioactive
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- 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.
- over-demanding — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- over-organized — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- 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.
- peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
- pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- 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.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- 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.
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- 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
- trial division — trial department
- under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unindividuated — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.