14-letter words containing a, v, n, o, d
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- 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.
- 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.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- 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.
- 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 and above — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
- over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
- 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.
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
- 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.
- 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.
- rancho cordova — a town in central California.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- 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
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- trial division — trial department
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- 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.
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- vasodilatation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.