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14-letter words containing v, e, g

  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
  • positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
  • progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
  • quasi-negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
  • reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
  • revolving door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
  • revolving-door — an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
  • right reverend — an official form of address for abbots, abbesses, Anglican bishops, and other prelates.
  • root vegetable — edible starchy tuber
  • salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
  • salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-deserving — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
  • self-levelling — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • semi-evergreen — retaining green, unwithered leaves for part of the winter or through comparatively mild winters.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • serve sb right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
  • service charge — a fee charged for a service, sometimes in addition to a basic charge.
  • serviette ring — a ring used to hold a cloth serviette or napkin neatly in a cylinder
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
  • 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
  • shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • silver-tongued — persuasive; eloquent: a silver-tongued orator.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • 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
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