14-letter words containing r, e, v, i, a
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- health service — system of medical care
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- inappreciative — not appreciative; lacking in appreciation.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- interoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- interpretative — interpretive.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times