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14-letter words containing a, v, i

  • anti-infective — of or relating to a substance used in the treatment of an infection.
  • anticipatively — In an anticipative manner; expectantly.
  • anticonvulsant — any of a class of drugs used to prevent or abolish convulsions
  • anticonvulsive — preventing or alleviating convulsions
  • anticorrosives — Plural form of anticorrosive.
  • antiderivative — an indefinite integral
  • antigovernment — opposed to government
  • antipositivism — The view in social science that the social realm may not be subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world.
  • antipositivist — Relating to antipositivism.
  • antireflective — treated in some way to prevent reflection
  • antiretroviral — inhibiting the process by which a retrovirus replicates
  • antisubversion — opposed to or acting against subversion
  • antiulcerative — An antiulcerative is an agent that prevents the formation or promotes the healing of ulcers.
  • antiuniversity — a group or institution which disregards the established traditions or practices of university education
  • apico-alveolar — articulated with the apex of the tongue touching or near the alveolar ridge, as (t), (z), (n), and (l)
  • appreciatively — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • apprehensively — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
  • araguaya-river — a river flowing N from central Brazil to the Tocantins River. about 1100 miles (1770 km) long.
  • area vitellina — the nonvascular part of the area opaca surrounding the area vasculosa.
  • areal velocity — a measure of the velocity of one celestial body in orbit about another, equal to the area swept out per unit time by the vector joining the two bodies.
  • arrivals board — a board showing the time of arrival of planes, trains or buses
  • assaultiveness — the condition of being assaultive
  • asseveratingly — in an asseverating or affirming manner
  • astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
  • atomic veteran — a veteran of the armed forces who was exposed to radioactivity during the testing or use of nuclear (atomic) weapons in World War II or subsequent wars.
  • attractiveness — providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring: an attractive personality.
  • auditory nerve — either of the eighth pair of cranial nerves, which connect the ear with the brain and carry impulses relating to sound and balance
  • augmentatively — In an augmentative fashion.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autoreactivity — (immunology) The condition of being autoreactive.
  • autoregressive — (statistics) Employing autoregression, using a weighted sample of past data to predict future results.
  • auxiliary verb — a verb used to indicate the tense, voice, mood, etc, of another verb where this is not indicated by inflection, such as English will in he will go, was in he was eating and he was eaten, do in I do like you, etc
  • availabilities — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • 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.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
  • backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • balto-slavonic — a hypothetical subfamily of Indo-European languages consisting of Baltic and Slavonic. It is now generally believed that similarities between them result from geographical proximity rather than any special relationship
  • baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
  • barbara liskov — (person)   Professor Barbara Liskov was the first US woman to be awarded a PhD in computing, and her innovations can be found in every modern programming language. She currently (2009) heads the Programming Methodology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Liskov's design innovations have, over the decades, made software more reliable and easier to maintain. She has invented two computer progamming languages: CLU, an object-orientated language, and Argus, a distributed programming language. Liskov's research forms the basis of modern programming languages such as Java, C# and C++. One of the biggest impacts of her work came from her contributions to the use of data abstraction, a method for organising complex programs. See Liskov substitution principle. In June 2009 she will receive the A. M. Turing Award.
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • bavarian cream — a cold dessert consisting of a rich custard set with gelatine and flavoured in various ways
  • belgian endive — endive (def 2).
  • belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
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