14-letter words containing c, a, s, e, v
- 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
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- 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
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- 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.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- have a case on — an instance of the occurrence, existence, etc., of something: Sailing in such a storm was a case of poor judgment.
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- health service — system of medical care
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- nativity scene — a set of figures displayed at Christmas as an artistic representation of the birth of Jesus Christ
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- nonacquisitive — not acquisitive
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- nuisance value — the usefulness of a person's or thing's capacity to cause difficulties or irritation
- objective case — objective (def 2a).
- objective-case — 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.
- oncornaviruses — Plural form of oncornavirus.