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14-letter words containing t, o, v, e, r

  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • 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).
  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • 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)
  • government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
  • 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
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • 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.
  • heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • herbert hoover — Herbert (Clark) 1874–1964, 31st president of the U.S. 1929–33.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
  • inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
  • interoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
  • intervariation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
  • interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
  • into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
  • intraoperative — Happening during surgery. Literally, within surgery.
  • introversively — In an introversive manner.
  • inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
  • inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • 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.
  • john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
  • 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
  • knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
  • labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
  • 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.
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