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

  • 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.
  • right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
  • second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • 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.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • 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.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • uncontroverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
  • under cover of — concealed
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • undeservedness — the quality or state of being undeserved
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • unprovided for — without income or means
  • unresolvedness — the state of being unresolved or irresolute
  • 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.
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • well-conserved — to prevent injury, decay, waste, or loss of: Conserve your strength for the race.
  • wood engraving — the art or process of engraving designs in relief with a burin on the end grain of wood, for printing.
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