14-letter words containing d, e, r, v
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- ever and again — now and then; from time to time
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
- exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
- hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- have hard ears — to be stubbornly disobedient
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hors d'oeuvres — a small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or creamed foods, often served on crackers or small pieces of toast, for eating at cocktail parties or other gatherings where drinks are served with no other food.
- hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
- into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
- leave for dead — to abandon