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14-letter words containing a, d, v

  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
  • ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
  • dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
  • dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • each and every — all
  • east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • eau de javelle — Javel water.
  • eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
  • eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
  • evenhandedness — The quality or state of being evenhanded.
  • ever and again — now and then; from time to time
  • expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • gender-variant — noting or relating to a person whose gender identity or gender expression does not conform to socially defined male or female gender norms: Don't call him a sissy; he's just a teenager with gender-variant behavior. Are metrosexuals part of the gender-variant community?
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • grid variation — the angle, at any point on the surface of the earth, between the magnetic and true meridians passing through that point.
  • 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.
  • hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • hand over hand — grasping with alternate hands
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • have a down on — to bear ill will towards (someone or something)
  • have a hand in — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • have a load on — to be intoxicated
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