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14-letter words containing c, a, v, i, r, t

  • overparticular — precise beyond necessity
  • partial vacuum — an enclosed space from which part of the air or another gas has been removed.
  • perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
  • pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
  • post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
  • postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
  • prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
  • private income — econ: from outside employment
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
  • proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
  • reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
  • recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • transactivator — to activate the replication of (a viral gene) through the presence of a gene at another locus, especially following a viral infection.
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • ultraexclusive — extremely exclusive
  • unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vector graphic — a computer image that is stored in memory as lines rather than a series of dots, allowing it to be rotated or proportionally scaled.
  • vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • vertical union — industrial union.
  • verticillaster — an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
  • victor charlie — a Vietcong or the Vietcong; the VC.
  • victoria cross — a British decoration awarded to soldiers and sailors for acts of conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy. Abbreviation: V.C.
  • victoria falls — a major waterfall on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, on the Zambezi River. Height: about 108 m (355 ft). Width: about 1400 m (4500 ft)
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • villari effect — the change in magnetic induction that takes place in certain substances when subjected to longitudinal stress.
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