14-letter words containing s, e, v, n, p
- overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- passive reason — the reasoning faculty existing only within an individual mind, limited in scope and perishing with the body.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- perceptiveness — having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition: a perceptive analysis of the problems involved.
- perfectiveness — the state or quality of being perfective
- permissiveness — habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
- 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.
- persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- possessiveness — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- pre-investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- pre-university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- presentiveness — (of a word) the state of being presentive
- preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
- scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
- self-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- seven sleepers — seven Christian youths from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Emperor Decius in 250 ad and, according to legend, slept for 187 years
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- silver protein — any of several colloidal silver solutions containing silver and a protein, as albumin: formerly used in treating inflammation of mucous membranes
- silver-spooned — born into, of, or relating to a wealthy upper-class family
- sleep movement — the folding together of leaflets, petals, etc, that occurs at night in certain plants, such as the prayer plant (Maranta leuconura)
- space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
- superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
- superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
- superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.