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

  • irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
  • irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • letter missive — a letter from an official source expressing a command, permission, invitation, etc.
  • level crossing — grade crossing.
  • life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
  • nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
  • nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
  • over-socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • oversimplified — simplified to the point of distortion or error
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • perez esquivel — Adolfo [uh-dol-foh;; Spanish ah-th awl-faw] /əˈdɒl foʊ;; Spanish ɑˈðɔl fɔ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel prize 1980.
  • persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
  • phillips curve — a curve that purports to plot the relationship between unemployment and inflation on the theory that as inflation falls unemployment rises and vice versa
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • 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.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • 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-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-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
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