14-letter words containing v, o, s, t
- oversaturation — the act or process of saturating.
- oversensitized — to render sensitive.
- overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
- oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
- overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- persian violet — any of several plants belonging to the genus Exacum, native to the Old World, as E. affine, having glossy, ovate leaves, and fragrant, bluish flowers: cultivated as a houseplant.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- photoresistive — photoconductive
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
- pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
- pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- prison visitor — a person who volunteers to pay regular visits to prison inmates
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- progressivists — the principles and practices of progressives.
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- revolutionised — to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- self-motivated — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-operative — automatic.
- self-valuation — an estimated value or worth.
- semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.