14-letter words containing v, e, s, l
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- galveston plan — commission plan.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- health service — system of medical care
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- high explosive — a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- individualised — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
- individualises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualise.
- individualizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of individualize.
- inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intempestively — in an intempestive manner
- interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
- intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- invariableness — The state of being invariable; constancy of state, condition, or quality; immutability; unchangeableness.
- invincibleness — The quality of being invincible; unconquerableness; insuperableness.
- inviolableness — The quality or state of being inviolable.
- invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- letter missive — a letter from an official source expressing a command, permission, invitation, etc.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
- life preserver — a buoyant jacket, belt, or other like device for keeping a person afloat.
- 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.
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).