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

  • 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.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
  • inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
  • love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
  • 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
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
  • noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
  • nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
  • nonspeculative — not speculative
  • novelistically — In a novelistic way.
  • over-stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
  • 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.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • 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.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reversal plate — a plate developed by the reversal process.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • salva veritate — without affecting truth-value
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • self assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-assertive — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
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