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14-letter words containing s, u, a, v, e

  • marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misgovernaunce — misgovernment
  • mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
  • non-assumptive — taken for granted.
  • non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
  • nonacquisitive — not acquisitive
  • noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
  • nonspeculative — not speculative
  • nonsuppurative — Not suppurative.
  • nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
  • oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.
  • over-ambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • overpersuasion — the act or instance of overpersuading someone
  • oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • pauper's grave — a grave paid for at public expense because the deceased person's family could not afford one
  • persuasiveness — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
  • presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • 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.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • 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.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • 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.
  • sauve qui peut — a state of panic or disorder; rout
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • seventh avenue — an avenue in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
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