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14-letter words containing l, e, v, r, t

  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
  • electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • health service — system of medical care
  • health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
  • hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • interpretively — serving to interpret; explanatory.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
  • interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
  • intervertebral — situated between the vertebrae.
  • intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
  • introversively — In an introversive manner.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
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