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14-letter words containing v, e, i, l, n, g

  • lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
  • non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
  • nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
  • overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
  • overgeneralize — to draw an overly general conclusion from (something)
  • overindulgence — excessive indulgence
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
  • pigeon-livered — meek-tempered; spiritless; mild.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
  • receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • 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
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
  • vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • venereological — of or relating to the study of sexually transmitted diseases
  • venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
  • venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
  • venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
  • viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
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