14-letter words containing i, t, n, e, v
- right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
- self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sensitive fern — a common, widely distributed fern, Onoclea sensibilis, having large, triangular leaves and beadlike spikes that contain the spores.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- service center — an authorized commercial establishment for repairs and replacement parts for appliances or cars.
- service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
- 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.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
- silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- situs inversus — a congenital defect in which an organ is on the side opposite from its normal position.
- 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.
- souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- 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)
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- student driver — someone who is learning to drive
- subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
- substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
- suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- supportiveness — giving support.
- sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
- swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
- tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
- take inventory — count stock or belongings
- televangelical — relating to televangelism
- television set — appliance that receives tv signals
- 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.
- terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
- think positive — be optimistic
- thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
- time-sensitive — physically changing as time passes