14-letter words containing ev
- every so often — now and again
- everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
- eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- 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).
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- greater weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
- group of seven — G7.
- half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- high-achieving — (of a person) dynamic, ambitious, and successful
- inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- levonorgestrel — A synthetic steroid hormone that has a similar effect to progesterone and is used in some contraceptive pills.
- levulinic acid — a white or colorless, water-soluble solid, C 5 H 8 O 3 , produced by the hydrolysis of cane sugar, starch, or cellulose; used chiefly in the organic synthesis of nylon, plastics, and pharmaceuticals.
- like the devil — If you say that someone does something like the devil, you are emphasizing that they put a lot of effort into it. If you say that someone drives like the devil, you are emphasizing that they drive very fast.
- 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.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- maldevelopment — malformation
- mean deviation — a measure of dispersion, computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the absolute values of the deviations of the functional values from some central value, usually the mean or median.
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- medieval greek — the Greek language of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500. Abbreviation: MGk, MGk., MGr.
- medieval latin — the Latin language of the literature of the Middle Ages, usually dated a.d. 700 to 1500, including many Latinized words from other languages. Abbreviation: ML, M.L.
- medieval welsh — the Welsh language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from about 1150 through the early 15th century.
- microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
- never mind sth — You use never mind after a statement, often a negative one, to indicate that the statement is even more true of the person, thing, or situation that you are going to mention next.
- never you mind — You use never you mind to tell someone not to ask about something because it is not their concern or they should not know about it.
- new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.
- ninety-seventh — next after the ninety-sixth; being the ordinal number for 97.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-evaluative — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- non-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- nonachievement — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
- nondevelopment — the lack of normal development
- odd-even check — parity check.
- omnibenevolent — All-loving, or infinitely good, usually in reference to a deity or supernatural being, for example, 'God'. Its use is often with regards to the divine triad, whereby a deity is described to be simultaneously omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. This triad is used especially with the Christian god, Yahweh.
- overdeveloping — Present participle of overdevelop.
- overevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- pay television — a commercial service that broadcasts or provides television programs to viewers who pay a monthly charge or a per-program fee.
- predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- prerevisionist — preceding revisionism
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.