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14-letter words containing b, l, e, v

  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • global village — the world, especially considered as the home of all nations and peoples living interdependently.
  • governableness — The state of being governable.
  • heaven help sb — You say 'Heaven help someone' when you are worried that something bad is going to happen to them, often because you disapprove of what they are doing or the way they are behaving.
  • hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
  • imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
  • indiscoverable — not discoverable.
  • inevitableness — The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
  • intervertebral — situated between the vertebrae.
  • invariableness — The state of being invariable; constancy of state, condition, or quality; immutability; unchangeableness.
  • invincibleness — The quality of being invincible; unconquerableness; insuperableness.
  • inviolableness — The quality or state of being inviolable.
  • invisible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
  • irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
  • irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • job evaluation — the analysis of the relationship between jobs in an organization: often used as a basis for a wages structure
  • labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
  • labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
  • leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
  • leavened bread — bread that contains a raising agent, such as yeast
  • living bandage — a method of treating severe burns or other skin injuries in which cultured cells grown from a sample of the patient's own skin are applied to the wound in order to stimulate new cell growth and avoid problems of graft rejection
  • local variable — (programming)   A variable with lexical scope, i.e. one which only exists in some particular part of the source code, typically within a block or a function or procedure body. This contrasts with a global variable, which is defined throughout the whole program. Code is easier to understand and modify when the scope of variables is as small as possible because it is easier to see how the variable is set and used. Code containing global variables is harder to modify because its behaviour may depend on and affect other sections of code that refer to that variable.
  • logic variable — (programming)   A variable in a logic programming language which is initially undefined ("unbound") but may get bound to a value or another logic variable during unification of the containing clause with the current goal. The value to which it is bound may contain other variables which may themselves be bound or unbound. For example, when unifying the clause sad(X) :- computer(X, ibmpc). with the goal sad(billgates). the variable X will become bound to the atom "billgates" yielding the new subgoal "computer(billgates, ibmpc)".
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
  • non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
  • nonbehavioural — not related to or concerned with behaviour
  • nonconvertible — Not convertible; that cannot be exchanged for an equivalent.
  • nonrecoverable — unable to be claimed back; damaged or lost forever
  • objective caml — (language)   (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • omnibenevolent — All-loving, or infinitely good, usually in reference to a deity or supernatural being, for example, 'God'. Its use is often with regards to the divine triad, whereby a deity is described to be simultaneously omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. This triad is used especially with the Christian god, Yahweh.
  • omnibus volume — a collection of works by one author or several works on a similar topic, reprinted in one volume
  • overbejewelled — wearing an excessive amount of jewellery, or excessively decorated
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • peso boliviano — a nickel-clad steel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Bolivia, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the boliviano in 1963.
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
  • rateable value — In Britain, the rateable value of a building was a value based on its size and facilities, which was used in calculating local taxes called rates.
  • receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
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