14-letter words containing r, v, a
- mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
- 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.
- mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
- 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.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- native country — the country someone is born in or native to
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
- naval barracks — a place where people in the Navy live
- naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
- navigation bar — (web) (Always abbreviated "nav bar") On a website, a prominently displayed set of links to important sections of the site.
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-aggressive — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-creativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- non-extractive — capable of being extracted, as from the earth: extractive fuels.
- non-generative — capable of producing or creating.
- non-imperative — of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding.
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- non-vegetarian — a person who does not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.
- non-vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- noncooperative — Not cooperative; uncooperative.
- noncorrelative — Not correlative.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- noninteractive — acting one upon or with the other.
- nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
- nonprocreative — Not procreative.
- nonprovocative — Not provocative.
- nonradioactive — not radioactive
- nonrecoverable — unable to be claimed back; damaged or lost forever
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonretroactive — not retroactive
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- normal divisor — a normal subgroup.
- 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.
- nouveau pauvre — a newly poor person.
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
- on the average — a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
- oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
- outmaneuvering — Present participle of outmaneuver.