14-letter words containing n, u, v
- convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- deindividuated — Simple past tense and past participle of deindividuate.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- devil's-tongue — a foul-smelling, fleshy plant, Amorphophallus rivieri, of the Old World tropics, having flowers on a spike surrounded by a dark-red spathe.
- diminutiveness — The state or quality of being diminutive.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- evergreen fund — a fund that provides capital for new companies and makes regular injections of capital to support their development
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
- group of seven — G7.
- haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- individualised — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- individualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualise.
- individualists — Plural form of individualist.
- individualized — Give an individual character to.
- individualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualize.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- involute teeth — (in gears) teeth having a profile that is the involute of a circle.
- jesus movement — Christian movement that combined a hippy communal way of life with zealous evangelicalism
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.