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14-letter words containing s, i, l, v, e, t

  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
  • inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
  • insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
  • intempestively — in an intempestive manner
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
  • introversively — In an introversive manner.
  • irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
  • multiversities — Plural form of multiversity.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • 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.
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • 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.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • 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.
  • proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • self-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
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