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14-letter words containing v, a, n, e, s, i

  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • 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.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • 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.
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
  • reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
  • semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • 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 cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • snifting valve — a valve for releasing small quantities of steam, compressed air, or condensate, as from the cylinder of a steam engine.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • 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)
  • substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • 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.
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • 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
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
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