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14-letter words containing f, a, v

  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
  • jeff davis pie — a custard pie baked in a pastry shell and containing spices, raisins, pecans, etc.
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • leave for dead — to abandon
  • marvel-of-peru — the four-o'clock, Mirabilis jalapa.
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
  • overfamiliarly — In an overfamiliar way.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • passive safety — the practice of taking measures to reduce the consequences of accidents, as opposed to attempting to avoid them altogether
  • rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
  • revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • rose of heaven — a plant, Lychnis coeli-rosa, of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean region, having solitary terminal, rose-pink flowers.
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • szekesfehervar — a city in W central Hungary.
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
  • venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
  • verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
  • vibroflotation — the use of a vibrating probe inserted into soil to prevent soil liquefaction, which can be a hazard in earthquakes
  • victoria falls — a major waterfall on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, on the Zambezi River. Height: about 108 m (355 ft). Width: about 1400 m (4500 ft)
  • vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
  • villafranchian — designating or of a European geologic stage of the Lower Pleistocene and the Upper Pliocene
  • villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
  • virginia fence — snake fence.
  • visceral cleft — branchial cleft.
  • vital function — any function of the body that is essential for life.
  • vote of thanks — A vote of thanks is an official speech in which the speaker formally thanks a person for doing something.
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