14-letter words containing s, a, l, e, v
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- over-socialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
- oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
- palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
- quasi-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
- saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
- salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- savi's warbler — a type of warbler; Locustella luscinioides.