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

  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • 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.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
  • conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
  • contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
  • contrapositive — placed opposite or against
  • contravariance — (computer science) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator.
  • contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • conversion van — a van for utility use that has been customized with a luxury interior
  • costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
  • deliverability — capable of delivery.
  • demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • derivativeness — the quality of being derivative
  • derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
  • derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical derivative.
  • desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
  • determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
  • disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
  • disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
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