14-letter words containing v, e, n, l, a
- juvenilization — The act or process of juvenilizing.
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- launch vehicle — Aerospace. a rocket used to launch a spacecraft or satellite into orbit or a space probe into space.
- lavender water — a pale bluish purple.
- learner driver — a person who is learning to drive
- learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
- leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- 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.
- line engraving — a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
- line-engraving — a technique of engraving in which all effects are produced by variations in the width and density of lines incised with a burin.
- live and learn — gain knowledge and experience
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
- 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
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- mean sea level — (in the UK) the sea level used by the Ordnance Survey as a datum level, determined at Newlyn in Cornwall
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- 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.
- natural virtue — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- non-evaluative — to determine or set the value or amount of; appraise: to evaluate property.
- non-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- non-vernacular — (of language) native or indigenous (opposed to literary or learned).
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.
- nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- noncorrelative — Not correlative.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nonequivalence — the state or fact of being equivalent; equality in value, force, significance, etc.
- nonlegislative — Not of a legislative character; not involved with or related to legislating.
- nonoverlapping — Not overlapping.
- nonrecoverable — unable to be claimed back; damaged or lost forever
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- nouvelle vague — a new wave, trend, movement, phase, etc., especially in an art form.
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- novell netware — (operating system, networking) Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- one false move — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
- over-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overallotments — Plural form of overallotment.
- overanalytical — too analytical