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

  • 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 live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
  • 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.
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transvaluation — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
  • trial division — trial department
  • trivialization — to make trivial; cause to appear unimportant, trifling, etc.
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • 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.
  • unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vasodilatation — dilatation of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
  • vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.
  • vertical union — industrial union.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vexed question — an issue that is much debated and discussed
  • vibroflotation — the use of a vibrating probe inserted into soil to prevent soil liquefaction, which can be a hazard in earthquakes
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vienna fortran — A data-parallel extension of Fortran 77 for distributed memory multiprocessors by Hans Zima <[email protected]>, Vienna University.
  • vietnamization — a U.S. policy during the Vietnam War of giving the South Vietnamese government responsibility for carrying on the war, so as to allow for the withdrawal of American troops.
  • 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
  • vital function — any function of the body that is essential for life.
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • vitilitigation — contention or backbiting
  • vivisectionist — a person who vivisects.
  • voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
  • volatilization — to become volatile; pass off as vapor.
  • volcaniclastic — pyroclastic.
  • volcanoclastic — pyroclastic.
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • vowel mutation — umlaut (def 2).
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • with one voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
  • yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.
  • your seventies — the ages between 70–79
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