14-letter words containing l, i, v, n
- 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.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- motivationally — In a motivational manner.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- naval aviation — use of aircraft by the navy
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- navigationally — in a navigational manner; from a navigational point of view
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- non-collective — formed by collection.
- non-conclusive — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-evaluative — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
- non-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- non-validation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
- non-volitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- nonconvertible — Not convertible; that cannot be exchanged for an equivalent.
- noncorrelative — Not correlative.
- noncultivation — the state of not cultivating
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nonequivalence — the state or fact of being equivalent; equality in value, force, significance, etc.
- noninvolvement — Lack of involvement.
- nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
- nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- novemdecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 60 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 114 zeros.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- objective lens — objective (def 3).
- objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- omnibenevolent — All-loving, or infinitely good, usually in reference to a deity or supernatural being, for example, 'God'. Its use is often with regards to the divine triad, whereby a deity is described to be simultaneously omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. This triad is used especially with the Christian god, Yahweh.
- omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
- over-influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- overcompliance — excessive compliance