14-letter words containing b, e, v, a, t
- private member — (sometimes lowercase) British. a member of a legislative body, especially of the House of Commons, who has no special duties and is not a member of the ministry.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
- substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
- valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
- van allen belt — either of two regions of high-energy-charged particles surrounding the earth, the inner region centered at an altitude of 2000 miles (3200 km) and the outer region at an altitude between 9000 and 12,000 miles (14,500 and 19,000 km).
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- vegetable wool — the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property.
- vegetable-gold — Also called vegetable gold. a crocus, Crocus sativus, having showy purple flowers.
- venetian blind — a blind, as for a window, having overlapping horizontal slats that may be opened or closed, especially one in which the slats may be raised and drawn together above the window by pulling a cord.
- viennese table — a dessert buffet, as at a reception, featuring a variety of fancy cakes, tarts, mousses, etc.