14-letter words containing c, i, s, t, v
- cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
- disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
- 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.
- effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- 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.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
- give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- health service — system of medical care
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- nativity scene — a set of figures displayed at Christmas as an artistic representation of the birth of Jesus Christ
- negative space — shape of space around an object
- non-subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
- nonacquisitive — not acquisitive
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- noncognitivism — the semantic meta-ethical thesis that moral judgments do not express facts and so do not have a truth value, thus excluding both naturalism and non-naturalism
- nonconsecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- nonconsumptive — not consumptive of a resource, product, or service
- noncontrastive — not contrastive.
- nondescriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nondestructive — Not involving damage or destruction, especially of an object or material that is being tested.
- nondistinctive — not serving to distinguish meanings: a nondistinctive difference in sound.