14-letter words containing c, e, r, v, i
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- primitive cell — a unit cell containing no points of the lattice except at the corners of the cell.
- 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.
- productiveness — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- productivities — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- 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.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- 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.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
- reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- scenic reserve — an area of natural beauty, set aside for public recreation
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
- second service — the communion service: so called because it follows Morning Prayer.
- secret service — the branch of governmental service that conducts secret investigations, especially investigations into the military strength of other nations.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- seismic survey — A seismic survey is a method of investigating underground properties and rock patterns using induced shock wave reflections.
- self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- senior service — the Royal Navy
- seroconversion — the process of producing antibodies in response to a specific antigen