14-letter words containing c, i, v, s
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- 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.
- evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
- 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
- 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.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- gaussian curve — normal curve.
- genie services — GE Information Services
- georges cuvier — Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert [zhawrzh ley-aw-pawld krey-tyan frey-dey-reek da-gaw-ber] /ʒɔrʒ leɪ ɔˈpɔld kreɪˈtyɛ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik da gɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
- 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.
- goncalves dias — Antonio [an-taw-nyoo] /ɛ̃ˈtɔ nyʊ/ (Show IPA), 1823–64, Brazilian poet.
- guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- health service — system of medical care
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconveniences — Plural form of inconvenience.
- indecisiveness — characterized by indecision, as persons; irresolute; undecided.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- 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.
- inverse cosine — arc cosine.
- invincibleness — The quality of being invincible; unconquerableness; insuperableness.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- lasciviousness — inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- 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.
- mechanicsville — a village in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle 1862.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- mucoviscidosis — cystic fibrosis.
- 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-conclusive — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.