14-letter words containing v, a, r, i, n, t
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- overdecoration — excessive decoration
- overenthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- overestimating — Present participle of overestimate.
- overestimation — An excessive estimation.
- overevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- overextraction — excessive extraction
- overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
- overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
- overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
- overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
- overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- oversaturating — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
- 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.
- photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- pre-invitation — the act of inviting.
- predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
- preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- 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.
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- 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.
- redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- relativization — to regard as or make relative.
- 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.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revitalization — to give new life to.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- 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
- 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.
- spirit varnish — a preparation consisting of resinous matter, as copal or lac, dissolved in an oil (oil varnish) or in alcohol (spirit varnish) or other volatile liquid. When applied to the surface of wood, metal, etc., it dries and leaves a hard, more or less glossy, usually transparent coating.