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

  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • 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.
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
  • flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
  • floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
  • floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • 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.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • 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)
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • 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).
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
  • 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.
  • half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
  • half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • 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.
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
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