14-letter words containing v, e, r, d, t
- elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
- eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- green verditer — either of two pigments, consisting usually of carbonate of copper prepared by grinding either azurite (blue verditer) or malachite (green verditer)
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
- into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- 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.
- mithridates vi — ("the Great") 132?–63 b.c, king of Pontus 120–63.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- 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.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- 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.
- nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
- nonintroverted — Not introverted.
- nonradioactive — not radioactive
- northern dvina — Also called Western Dvina. Latvian Daugava. a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the W Russian Federation, flowing W through Byelorussia (Belarus) and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1030) long.
- objet de vertu — an object of virtu
- ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
- over-advertise — to advertise too much
- over-confident — too confident.
- over-dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- overadjustment — an adjustment that is too great
- overcontrolled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- overdecoration — excessive decoration