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14-letter words containing e, v, r, t

  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • forest reserve — an area of forest set aside and preserved by the government as a wilderness, national park, or the like.
  • forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • 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.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • 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?
  • george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • governmentally — 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.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • 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.
  • greater weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
  • 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.
  • have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • have the grace — to be so aware of what is proper as (to do something)
  • have the heart — to have the necessary will, callousness, etc (to do something)
  • health service — system of medical care
  • health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
  • heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
  • heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • herbert hoover — Herbert (Clark) 1874–1964, 31st president of the U.S. 1929–33.
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
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