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14-letter words containing v, i, t, o

  • 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.
  • galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
  • galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gentian violet — a dye derived from rosaniline, used in chemistry as an indicator and in medicine as a fungicide, bactericide, anthelmintic, and in the treatment of burns.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • 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.
  • have a mind to — think about doing
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have it in for — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • have it in one — to have the ability (to do something)
  • 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.
  • heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
  • heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
  • hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hotel de ville — a city hall.
  • hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
  • improvisations — Plural form of improvisation.
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
  • inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
  • innovativeness — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
  • inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
  • interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
  • interoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
  • interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
  • intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
  • intervariation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
  • interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
  • into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
  • intraoperative — Happening during surgery. Literally, within surgery.
  • introversively — In an introversive manner.
  • inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
  • 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.
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