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14-letter words containing v, d

  • late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
  • lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
  • learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • leave for dead — to abandon
  • leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
  • levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
  • like a dervish — If you say that someone is like a dervish, you mean that they are turning round and round, waving their arms about, or working very quickly.
  • like the devil — If you say that someone does something like the devil, you are emphasizing that they put a lot of effort into it. If you say that someone drives like the devil, you are emphasizing that they drive very fast.
  • live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
  • livia drusilla — 58 bc–29 ad, Roman noblewoman: wife (from 39 bc) of Emperor Augustus and mother of Emperor Tiberius
  • 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
  • lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
  • 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.
  • major delivery — (programming)   A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
  • maldevelopment — malformation
  • 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.
  • medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
  • 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.
  • medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
  • 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.
  • misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
  • misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
  • missed'em-five — (operating system, abuse)   (Or "SysVile" /sis-vi:l'/) A pejorative hackerism for AT&T System V Unix, generally used by BSD partisans in a bigoted mood. See software bloat, Berzerkeley.
  • mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
  • monodispersive — Monodisperse.
  • mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • mucoviscidosis — cystic fibrosis.
  • naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
  • neurodivergent — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • neurodiversity — the variation and differences in neurological structure and function that exist among human beings, especially when viewed as being normal and natural rather than pathological: recognizing autism as an example of neurodiversity.
  • never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
  • never you mind — You use never you mind to tell someone not to ask about something because it is not their concern or they should not know about it.
  • new providence — an island in the N Bahamas. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
  • non-conductive — having the property or capability of conducting.
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
  • non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • non-validation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
  • nondevelopment — the lack of normal development
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.
  • nondiversified — Not diversified.
  • nonintroverted — Not introverted.
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