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14-letter words containing e, v, i, l, u

  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overparticular — precise beyond necessity
  • overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
  • perez esquivel — Adolfo [uh-dol-foh;; Spanish ah-th awl-faw] /əˈdɒl foʊ;; Spanish ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel prize 1980.
  • phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • pro-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • quantitatively — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolutionizer — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self-inclusive — including oneself or itself.
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semi-exclusive — not admitting of something else; incompatible: mutually exclusive plans of action.
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • silver jubilee — the celebration of any of certain anniversaries, as the twenty-fifth (silver jubilee) fiftieth (golden jubilee) or sixtieth or seventy-fifth (diamond jubilee)
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • survival curve — a line or curve plotted on a graph indicating survival rates of a specific population, as breast-cancer patients, over a period of time.
  • survival value — the utility of a behavioral trait or of a physical feature of an organism in aiding the survival and reproduction of the organism.
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
  • ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
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