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14-letter words containing c, e, r, v

  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
  • cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
  • cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
  • cryoprotective — protecting against damage caused by cryopreservation
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • cytoprotective — (biology) That provides cytoprotection.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • device manager — (operating system)   The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • 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
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • each and every — all
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
  • electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • 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.
  • every man jack — everyone without exception
  • eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
  • export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
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