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

  • 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
  • goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
  • 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.
  • hradec kralove — a town in the N Czech Republic, on the Elbe River: Austrians defeated by Prussians in Battle of Sadowa 1866.
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inverted comma — quotation mark.
  • judge advocate — a staff officer designated as legal adviser to a commander and charged with the administration of military justice.
  • l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • 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.
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • naval dockyard — a place where a Navy's ships are kept
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nondiffractive — Not diffractive.
  • nonradioactive — not radioactive
  • ovariectomized — Simple past tense and past participle of ovariectomize.
  • over-abundance — an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
  • overdecoration — excessive decoration
  • overmedication — the act or instance of medicating unnecessarily or excessively
  • oversocialized — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
  • palacio valdes — Armando [ahr-mahn-daw] /ɑrˈmɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1938, Spanish novelist and critic.
  • peace dividend — money cut by a government from its defense budget as a result of the cessation of hostilities with other countries.
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • rancho cordova — a town in central California.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • 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.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
  • vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
  • 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).
  • vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
  • 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
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • 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
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