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14-letter words containing t, o, v, a, r, i

  • oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
  • 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.
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • preoperatively — in a preoperative context
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • 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.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • 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.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
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