14-letter words containing c, e, n, t, a, v
- overcompensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overextraction — excessive extraction
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- 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.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- televangelical — relating to televangelism
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- vena contracta — any of the locations in a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice where the cross section of the jet is at a minimum, especially the location of minimum cross section nearest the orifice.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical union — industrial union.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- vinylacetylene — a colorless, volatile liquid, C 4 H 4 , used chiefly as an intermediate in the manufacture of the synthetic rubber neoprene.
- voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- wyandotte cave — a cave in S Indiana: one of the most extensive in the U.S., with 23 miles (37 km) of passages.