14-letter words containing v, a, n, e
- line-engraving — a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
- live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
- 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.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- maldevelopment — malformation
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
- 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.
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
- meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
- mermaid tavern — an inn formerly located on Bread Street, Cheapside, in the heart of old London: a meeting place and informal club for Elizabethan playwrights and poets.
- meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- metanarratives — Plural form of metanarrative.
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- 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.
- mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 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
- moving average — one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.
- native country — the country someone is born in or native to
- native speaker — sb: language is their mother tongue
- nativity scene — a set of figures displayed at Christmas as an artistic representation of the birth of Jesus Christ
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- nature reserve — protected area for wildlife
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- nerve wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- nerve-wracking — extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve-racking day; a nerve-racking noise.
- new haven stem — a straight stem for flatbottomed boats in which the ends of the side planking are mitered and covered with a sheet of metal, the stem piece being wholly inside.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-aggressive — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-creativity — the state or quality of being creative.
- non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-evaluative — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- non-extractive — capable of being extracted, as from the earth: extractive fuels.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.