14-letter words containing a, v, o, t
- have it in one — to have the ability (to do something)
- have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
- 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.
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
- improvisations — Plural form of improvisation.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
- innovativeness — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- interoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
- intervariation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
- intraoperative — Happening during surgery. Literally, within surgery.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- investigations — Plural form of investigation.
- 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- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.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
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- kalamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- late developer — someone, esp a teenager, who matures physically or emotionally at an older age than considered usual
- lavatory paper — Lavatory paper is paper that you use to clean yourself after you have got rid of urine or faeces from your body.
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- maldevelopment — malformation
- matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- 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.
- meta-cognitive — higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- 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.
- motivationally — In a motivational manner.
- mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)