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14-letter words containing g, o, v

  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • georges cuvier — Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert [zhawrzh ley-aw-pawld krey-tyan frey-dey-reek da-gaw-ber] /ʒɔrʒ leɪ ɔˈpɔld kreɪˈtyɛ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik da gɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • giovanni leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • give sb 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 short fixed period of time.
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • 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)
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • 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
  • grease remover — a substance that removes grease
  • grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
  • 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 of seven — G7.
  • 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.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • high explosive — a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • investigations — Plural form of investigation.
  • invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • level crossing — grade crossing.
  • levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
  • living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
  • logic variable — (programming)   A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
  • mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
  • meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • moving average — one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • navigation act — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
  • navigation bar — (web)   (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
  • navigationally — in a navigational manner; from a navigational point of view
  • nervous energy — an excess of energy that you have when you are apprehensive or worried
  • neurocognitive — Pertaining to cognitive functions that are linked to a particular area, pathway or network of the brain.
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