14-letter words containing c, a, v, o
- 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.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- rancho cordova — a town in central California.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- 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
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- share of voice — the proportion of the total audience or readership commanded by a media group across its full range of publishing and broadcasting activities
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
- social service — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- 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.
- travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- unconventional — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
- undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
- vacuum forming — a process in which a sheet of warmed thermoplastic is shaped by placing it in a mould and applying suction
- vacuum molding — Vacuum molding is a type of molding in which pressure is applied by introducing a vacuum on the side of the mold.
- vaginal condom — a contraceptive for women, being a thin polyurethane pouch, one end of which is inserted into the vagina and the other end spread over the vulva.
- valcour island — an island in NE New York, in Lake Champlain: battle 1776.
- valerianaceous — belonging to the plant family Valerianaceae.
- van conversion — van2 (def 4).
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- variable costs — Variable costs are costs that vary depending on how much of a product is made.
- varicose veins — swollen blood vessels
- 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.
- velasco ibarra — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1979, Ecuadorean political leader: president 1934–35, 1944–47, 1952–56, 1960–61, 1968–72.
- vena contracta — any of the locations in a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice where the cross section of the jet is at a minimum, especially the location of minimum cross section nearest the orifice.