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

  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • overparticular — precise beyond necessity
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • overspecialize — to specialize to an excessive degree
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
  • peace activist — someone who advocates for peace or an end to conflicts
  • peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • prairie clover — any plant belonging to the genus Petalostemon, of the legume family, common in western North America, having pinnately compound leaves and spikes of white, purple, or pink flowers.
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
  • service charge — a fee charged for a service, sometimes in addition to a basic charge.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • 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
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
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