14-letter words containing v, o, s
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
- line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- lovingkindness — kindness or affectionate behavior resulting from or expressing love
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misimprovement — a flaw or shortcoming arising from an attempt to make better
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- missouri river — a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). Capital: Jefferson City. Abbreviation: MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- monodispersive — Monodisperse.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- montes veneris — mons veneris
- mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- mucoviscidosis — cystic fibrosis.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy
- nervous energy — an excess of energy that you have when you are apprehensive or worried
- nervous nellie — a constantly nervous, worried, or timid person.
- nervous system — the system of nerves and nerve centers in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
- 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.
- nine-to-fivers — of, relating to, or during the workday, especially the hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when offices are characteristically open for business: the nine-to-five grind.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-aggressive — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
- non-assumptive — taken for granted.
- non-conclusive — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-dispersive — serving or tending to disperse.
- non-disruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- non-exhaustive — exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.
- non-expressive — full of expression; meaningful: an expressive shrug.
- non-oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- non-regressive — Biology. of, relating to, or effecting regression.
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- non-responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- non-submissive — inclined or ready to submit or yield to the authority of another; unresistingly or humbly obedient: submissive servants.
- non-successive — following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.