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14-letter words containing a, r, v, d

  • pre-galvanized — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
  • predestinative — predestinating; of the nature of or concerned with predestination
  • predevaluation — of or pertaining to the period prior to devaluation of a given thing
  • providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
  • rancho cordova — a town in central California.
  • redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
  • removable disk — removable hard disk
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • saavedra lamas — Carlos [kahr-laws] /ˈkɑr lɔs/ (Show IPA), 1878?–1959, Argentine statesman and diplomat: Nobel Peace Prize 1936.
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • sand lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seventh-grader — a student in the seventh year of school, usually 11 to 13 years old
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • 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
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • spike lavender — a lavender, Lavandula latifolia, having spikes of pale-purple flowers, and yielding an oil used in painting.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • the everglades — a subtropical marshy region of Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee: contains the Everglades National Park established to preserve the flora and fauna of the swamps. Area: over 13 000 sq km (5000 sq miles)
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • trial division — trial department
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • undulant fever — brucellosis.
  • v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • valetudinarian — an invalid.
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • vantage ground — a position or place that gives one an advantage, as for action, view, or defense.
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • vat-registered — (of a company or individual) registered as being liable to pay VAT
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
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