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14-letter words containing c, i, d, e, v

  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • predictiveness — of or relating to prediction: losing one's predictive power.
  • 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.
  • provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
  • provincialised — to make provincial in character.
  • radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-deceiving — subject to self-deception; tending to deceive or fool oneself: a self-deceiving person.
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • 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
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • sound archives — official records or files (as in a library) of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances, esp those from radio programmes
  • space invaders — a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • supercivilized — (of a person or society) highly or excessively civilized
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
  • ultracivilized — showing a high degree of cultural or social development
  • under-achiever — a student who performs less well in school than would be expected on the basis of abilities indicated by intelligence and aptitude tests, etc.
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undiscoverable — unable to be discovered or found out
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • vacuum residue — Vacuum residue is the substance which is obtained by vacuum distillation (= a process of separating substances by reducing pressure to less than atmospheric pressure).
  • valentine card — a card expressing love or affection, sent, often anonymously, to your sweetheart or satirically to a friend, on Saint Valentine's Day
  • vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
  • vice president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • vice-president — an officer next in rank to a president who serves as president in the president's absence.
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • video cassette — a cassette enclosing a length of tape for video recording or reproduction.
  • video recorder — A video recorder or a video cassette recorder is the same as a VCR.
  • vindictiveness — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
  • vinyl chloride — a colorless, easily liquefied, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, C 2 H 3 Cl, having a pleasant, etherlike odor: used in the manufacture of plastics, as a refrigerant, and in the synthesis of polyvinyl chloride and other organic compounds.
  • viollet-le-duc — Eugène Emmanuel [œ-zhen e-ma-ny-el] /œˈʒɛn ɛ ma nüˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1814–79, French architect and writer.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • well-conceived — to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.): He conceived the project while he was on vacation.
  • well-evidenced — that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.
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