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14-letter words containing l, a, v, i

  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • quantitatively — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
  • quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • 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.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
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