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14-letter words containing d, e, v, i, t

  • redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
  • retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • 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
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • to have had it — If you say that someone has had it, you mean they are in very serious trouble or have no hope of succeeding.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • unindividuated — to form into an individual or distinct entity.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • 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.
  • verisimilitude — the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vexed question — an issue that is much debated and discussed
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
  • vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
  • viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • well motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
  • well-motivated — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
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