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14-letter words containing i, n, v, t, e, d

  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
  • dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
  • elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
  • into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
  • inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
  • medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
  • meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
  • mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • 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-conductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • 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.
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
  • nonintroverted — Not introverted.
  • nonradioactive — not radioactive
  • northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
  • over-confident — too confident.
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overdetermined — excessively or unduly determined.
  • overdistention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overproduction — excessive production; production in excess of need or stipulated amount.
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