14-letter words containing t, a, l, v, e, r
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
- 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
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- 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
- intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
- interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
- intervertebral — situated between the vertebrae.
- intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- italian clover — crimson clover.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- larval therapy — the use of maggots that feed on dead tissue to assist in the healing of serious wounds. An ancient practice, it has been revived in rare cases in which healing is hampered by the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- lavatory paper — Lavatory paper is paper that you use to clean yourself after you have got rid of urine or faeces from your body.
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- noncorrelative — Not correlative.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
- over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.