14-letter words containing s, e, r, v, i
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- letter missive — a letter from an official source expressing a command, permission, invitation, etc.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- 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.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- metanarratives — Plural form of metanarrative.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- 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.
- montes veneris — mons veneris
- multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- 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.
- nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- 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-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- non-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
- non-oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- non-regressive — Biology. of, relating to, or effecting regression.
- non-responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- 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.
- nondiversified — Not diversified.
- nonobstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- nonprogressive — not progressive; old-fashioned
- nonrestorative — serving to restore; pertaining to restoration.
- nonrestrictive — not restrictive or limiting.
- nonsupervisory — not supervisory
- nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
- omnivorousness — eating both animal and plant foods.
- oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
- oppressiveness — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- over-advertise — to advertise too much
- over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- over-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.