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14-letter words containing e, a, v

  • anal retentive — a person who exhibits anal personality traits
  • anal-retentive — having an anal character.
  • and everything — You say 'and everything' after mentioning a particular thing or list of things to indicate that they are only examples and that other things are also involved.
  • animadversions — Plural form of animadversion.
  • anne of cleves — 1515–57, the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England: their marriage (1540) was annulled after six months
  • antediluvially — in antediluvian times, in times before the Flood
  • anti bolshevik — a member of the more radical majority of the Social Democratic Party, 1903–17, advocating immediate and forceful seizure of power by the proletariat. (after 1918) a member of the Russian Communist Party.
  • anti-bolshevik — a person who is opposed to Bolshevism
  • anti-infective — of or relating to a substance used in the treatment of an infection.
  • anticipatively — In an anticipative manner; expectantly.
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • anticorrosives — Plural form of anticorrosive.
  • antiderivative — an indefinite integral
  • antigovernment — opposed to government
  • antireflective — treated in some way to prevent reflection
  • antiretroviral — inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • aphthous fever — foot-and-mouth disease.
  • apico-alveolar — articulated with the apex of the tongue touching or near the alveolar ridge, as (t), (z), (n), and (l)
  • apple turnover — a pastry containing apple
  • appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • araguaya-river — a river flowing N from central Brazil to the Tocantins River. about 1100 miles (1770 km) long.
  • area vasculosa — that part of the area opaca in which the blood cells and vessels are formed.
  • area vitellina — the nonvascular part of the area opaca surrounding the area vasculosa.
  • areal velocity — a measure of the velocity of one celestial body in orbit about another, equal to the area swept out per unit time by the vector joining the two bodies.
  • asarah betevet — a Jewish fast day observed on the 10th day of the month of Tevet in memory of the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in 586 b.c. by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • assessed value — the value of something as determined by an assessor, especially the value of real property.
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
  • attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
  • auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
  • availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • ave atque vale — hail and farewell: from an ode of Catullus in commemoration of his dead brother
  • average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
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