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14-letter words containing o, v, e

  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • 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
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • 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
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • 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
  • summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • 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.
  • tergiversatory — 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 pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • throttle lever — throttle (def 1).
  • throttle valve — a valve for throttling the working fluid of an engine, refrigerator, etc.
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • 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 have had it — If you say that someone has had it, you mean they are in very serious trouble or have no hope of succeeding.
  • to have it out — If you have it out or have things out with someone, you discuss a problem or disagreement very openly with them, even if it means having an argument, because you think this is the best way to solve the problem.
  • 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 make a move — If you make a move, you prepare or begin to leave one place and go somewhere else.
  • 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.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
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