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14-letter words containing v, o, l, t, a

  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
  • dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
  • electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • elevator shaft — passage for a lift
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
  • evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exploitatively — In an exploitative manner.
  • fall victim to — If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
  • 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.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • galveston plan — commission plan.
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gavel-to-gavel — from the opening to the closing of a formal session or series of sessions: gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Congressional hearing.
  • 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.
  • george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
  • 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)
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • grain elevator — elevator (def 4).
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
  • 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.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
  • intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
  • interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
  • invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
  • irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • java black rot — a disease of stored sweet potatoes, characterized by dry rot of and black protuberances on the tubers, caused by a fungus, Diplodia tubericola.
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
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