14-letter words containing t, c, v, n
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- 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.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- revenue cutter — cutter (def 4).
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- 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.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- service center — an authorized commercial establishment for repairs and replacement parts for appliances or cars.
- service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- televangelical — relating to televangelism
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
- to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
- transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
- unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- unchauvinistic — not chauvinistic
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- uncontroverted — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- uncultivatable — unsuitable for cultivation
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
- valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
- vascular plant — a plant having a vascular system.
- vena contracta — any of the locations in a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice where the cross section of the jet is at a minimum, especially the location of minimum cross section nearest the orifice.
- venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
- vernier rocket — a small, low-thrust rocket engine for correcting the heading and velocity of a long-range ballistic missile.