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14-letter words containing t, s, v, e

  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • television set — appliance that receives tv signals
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • 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 everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the reverse of — emphatically not; not at all
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • time-sensitive — physically changing as time passes
  • to live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
  • totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • treasure trove — If you describe something or someone as a treasure trove of a particular thing, you mean that they are a very good or rich source of that thing.
  • treasure-trove — anything of the nature of treasure or a treasury that one finds: Mother's attic was a treasure-trove of memorabilia.
  • trois-rivieres — French name of Three Rivers.
  • turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
  • twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • 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.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal time — (time, standard)   (UT) The mean solar time along the prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK, where the current system originated. UT is tied to the rotation of the Earth in respect to the fictitious "mean Sun". There are three separate definitions, UT0, UT1, and UT2, depending on which corrections have been applied to the Earth's motion. Coordinated Universal Time is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, by addition of leap seconds to International Atomic Time.
  • universitarian — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • vanadium steel — an alloy steel containing vanadium.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
  • vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
  • vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • venetian sumac — smoke tree (def 2).
  • ventilationist — of, relating to, or advocating the ventilation of emotions: a ventilationist approach to dealing with anger.
  • venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
  • verisimilitude — the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
  • verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
  • vespertilionid — any of a large family (Vespertilionidae) of long-tailed bats that are widely distributed, esp. in temperate regions, including most of the small, insect-eating species
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