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14-letter words containing i, n, v, g, o

  • revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • shaving mirror — small adjustable mirror
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • 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)
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • 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.
  • unconvincingly — persuading or assuring by argument or evidence: They gave a convincing demonstration of the car's safety features.
  • 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.
  • vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
  • vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
  • vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • 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
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • 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 stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • vitilitigation — contention or backbiting
  • voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
  • volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
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