14-letter words containing a, n, v
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
- family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
- figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
- final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
- five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- 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.
- free variation — a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- 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.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
- 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.
- giovanni leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
- give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
- given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- government man — (in the 19th century) a convict
- 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).
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- greek valerian — any of various plants belonging to the genus Polemonium, of the phlox family, especially P. reptans, having pinnate leaves and blue flowers.
- grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- half-evergreen — having leaves which may or may not remain green throughout the year
- 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.
- hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands