14-letter words containing e, v, s, d
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- missed'em-five — (operating system, abuse) (Or "SysVile" /sis-vi:l'/) A pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. See software bloat, Berzerkeley.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- over sb's head — If someone does something over another person's head, they do it without asking them or discussing it with them, especially when they should do so because the other person is in a position of authority.
- over-advertise — to advertise too much
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- overburdensome — excessively burdensome.
- overdistention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
- oversensitized — to render sensitive.
- oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
- oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
- oversubscribed — If something such as an event or a service is oversubscribed, too many people apply to attend the event or use the service.
- palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.