14-letter words containing a, v, n
- 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.
- devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
- 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's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
- devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
- digital native — a person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a young age. Compare digital immigrant.
- disadvantaging — Present participle of disadvantage.
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
- dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- dovetail hinge — a strap hinge having leaves which are narrower at their junction than at their other extremities.
- dovetail joint — A dovetail or a dovetail joint is a joint used for fitting two pieces of wood tightly together.
- dovetail plane — a plane for cutting tongues and grooves with parallel or inclined sides.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- each and every — all
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
- envenomization — the introduction of poison into a body
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
- evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
- evangelization — The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.
- evenhandedness — The quality or state of being evenhanded.
- evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- ever and again — now and then; from time to time
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
- exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.