14-letter words containing n, e, v, o
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- 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
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
- sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
- souvenir sheet — a single stamp or a pair, block, or set of stamps having the same or different designs commemorating a stamp exhibition or other event and having inscriptions in one or all four margins.
- sovereign debt — the debt of a national government, esp debt that is issued in a foreign currency
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
- stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- supportiveness — giving support.
- swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
- take inventory — count stock or belongings
- television set — appliance that receives tv signals
- tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
- tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
- think positive — be optimistic
- to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
- to live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
- tunnel of love — a ride in an amusement park consisting of a dark, narrow, covered passageway through which small cars or boats are mechanically conveyed, usually frequented by couples.
- turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- uncontroverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- under cover of — concealed
- underdeveloped — improperly or insufficiently developed.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner