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14-letter words containing a, c, i, v, e

  • decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
  • disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • eta conversion — (theory)   In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
  • evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
  • health service — system of medical care
  • high-achieving — (of a person) dynamic, ambitious, and successful
  • hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
  • immunoreactive — Of, pertaining to, or causing an immune reaction.
  • improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
  • inappreciative — not appreciative; lacking in appreciation.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • 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.
  • learning curve — Education. a graphic representation of progress in learning measured against the time required to achieve mastery.
  • 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.
  • livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
  • local variable — (programming)   A variable with lexical scope, i.e. one which only exists in some particular part of the source code, typically within a block or a function or procedure body. This contrasts with a global variable, which is defined throughout the whole program. Code is easier to understand and modify when the scope of variables is as small as possible because it is easier to see how the variable is set and used. Code containing global variables is harder to modify because its behaviour may depend on and affect other sections of code that refer to that variable.
  • logic variable — (programming)   A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
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