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14-letter words containing n, e, r, v, d

  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • each and every — all
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
  • 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
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • ever and again — now and then; from time to time
  • evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
  • eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
  • inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
  • into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
  • inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
  • john davenportJohn, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  • knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
  • leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
  • live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
  • mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • monodispersive — Monodisperse.
  • neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
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