14-letter words containing o, n, v
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- 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.
- juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- line-item veto — the power of the executive to veto particular items of a bill without having to veto the entire bill.
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- 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.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- maldevelopment — malformation
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
- mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
- meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
- miniconvention — a small-scale or preliminary convention, especially a political convention prior to a larger or national convention.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- montes veneris — mons veneris
- motivationally — In a motivational manner.
- mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
- mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
- mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
- moving average — one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.
- moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- native country — the country someone is born in or native to
- naval aviation — use of aircraft by the navy
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- navigation act — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.