14-letter words containing g, i, v, e, n
- self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
- self-levelling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
- self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- semi-evergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
- seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
- swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
- televangelical — relating to televangelism
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- venereological — of or relating to the study of sexually transmitted diseases
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
- vernier engine — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- virginia beach — a town in SE Virginia.
- virginia fence — snake fence.
- visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.