14-letter words containing e, v, n, t, m
- pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- revenue stream — method of income
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
- sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
- terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
- time-sensitive — physically changing as time passes
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
- universal time — (time, standard) (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
- unremunerative — not rewarding or paying for work or service, etc
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
- valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
- vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
- volume control — switch used to adjust level of sound
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
- vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
- youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people