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14-letter words containing t, o, v

  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • jesus movement — Christian movement that combined a hippy communal way of life with zealous evangelicalism
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
  • kalamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
  • 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
  • konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
  • 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.
  • levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
  • levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
  • line-item veto — the power of the executive to veto particular items of a bill without having to veto the entire bill.
  • living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
  • love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • maldevelopment — malformation
  • matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
  • mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
  • mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
  • meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • millivoltmeter — A voltmeter that is sensitive enough to produce readings on the millivolt scale.
  • miniconvention — a small-scale or preliminary convention, especially a political convention prior to a larger or national convention.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
  • misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
  • montes veneris — mons veneris
  • motivationally — In a motivational manner.
  • mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
  • 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
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
  • musca volitans — floater (def 6).
  • native country — the country someone is born in or native to
  • naval aviation — use of aircraft by the navy
  • naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
  • navigation act — any of several acts of Parliament between 1651 and 1847 designed primarily to expand British trade and limit trade by British colonies with countries that were rivals of Great Britain.
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