14-letter words containing r, e, v, i, d
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- 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.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
- into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
- like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
- live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
- major delivery — (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
- medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- never you mind — You use never you mind to tell someone not to ask about something because it is not their concern or they should not know about it.
- new providence — an island in the N Bahamas. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
- non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- nonintroverted — Not introverted.
- nonradioactive — not radioactive
- northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
- over-advertise — to advertise too much
- over-confident — too confident.
- over-demanding — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- over-dignified — to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
- over-dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- over-fulfilled — to carry out, or bring to realization, as a prophecy or promise.
- over-organized — to stress formal structure, status, rules, and details excessively.
- overconfidence — too confident.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overdetermined — excessively or unduly determined.