14-letter words containing a, l, v, e
- avalanche lily — a wildflower (Erythronium montanum) of the lily family, native to the mountain meadows of Washington and Oregon and blooming in June among the melting snowbanks
- avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
- avalokitesvara — a male Bodhisattva, widely revered and identified with various persons and gods.
- ave atque vale — hail and farewell: from an ode of Catullus in commemoration of his dead brother
- average clause — a clause in an insurance policy that distributes the insurance among several items, usually in proportion to their value
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
- balanced valve — a valve designed so that pressure-induced forces from the fluid being controlled oppose one another so that resistance to opening and closing the valve is negligible.
- balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
- baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
- belgian endive — endive (def 2).
- belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
- belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
- beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
- bicuspid valve — mitral valve
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- bokhara clover — white melilot.
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- break-up value — the value of an organization assuming that it will not continue to trade
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
- cape canaveral — a cape on the E coast of Florida: site of the US Air Force Missile Test Centre, from which the majority of US space missions have been launched
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
- central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
- cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
- class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- clive sinclair — (person) Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators