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14-letter words containing l, i, v, e, d

  • overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overprivileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • pizza delivery — a service provided by some pizza restaurants whereby pizzas are delivered to customers who have placed orders by telephone
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • polyvinylidene — pertaining to or derived from a polymer of a vinylidene compound.
  • 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
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • revolving door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-deserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • 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
  • silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • 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
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
  • stirred vessel — A stirred vessel is a vessel in which a device moves to mix something.
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
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