14-letter words containing v, a, n, e
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
- dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- each and every — all
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
- evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- evenhandedness — The quality or state of being evenhanded.
- evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- ever and again — now and then; from time to time
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
- five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.