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14-letter words containing l, a, v, e, r, n

  • overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
  • overanalytical — too analytical
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcompliance — excessive compliance
  • overevaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • overgeneralize — to draw an overly general conclusion from (something)
  • overland stage — a stagecoach used in the western U.S. during the middle of the 19th century.
  • overland trail — any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
  • overmodulation — excessive amplitude modulation, resulting in distortion of a signal.
  • overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • overregulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • parental leave — a leave of absence from a job for a parent to care for a new baby.
  • 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.
  • pleasant grove — a town in central Utah.
  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
  • relativization — to regard as or make relative.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • revitalization — to give new life to.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • self-revealing — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • seville orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • silver nitrate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, bitter, corrosive, poisonous powder, AgNO 3 , produced by the reaction of silver and dilute nitric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and mirrors, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as an antiseptic, astringent, and in the routine prophylaxis of ophthalmia neonatorum.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • southern slavs — one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • universal bank — A universal bank is a bank that offers both banking and stockbroking services to its clients.
  • universal beam — a broad-flanged rolled steel joist suitable for a stanchion (axial load) or beam (bending load)
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • universal mill — a rolling mill having both horizontal and vertical rolls.
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