13-letter words containing c, i, v
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- deconvolution — A process of resolving something into its constituent elements or removing complication in order to clarify it.
- defectiveness — having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
- demi-culverin — a culverin having a bore of about 4½ inches (11 cm) and firing a shot of about 10 pounds (5 kg).
- derived curve — a curve whose equation is the derivative of the equation of a given curve.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivism — the theory that moral utterances have a truth value
- descriptivist — a writer, teacher, or supporter of descriptive grammar or descriptive linguistics.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- destructively — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- destructivism — the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole
- destructivist — a person who holds to the theory of destructivism
- detectivelike — Resembling a detective or some aspect of one.
- device driver — (operating system) Software to control a hardware component or peripheral device of a computer such as a magnetic disk, magnetic tape or printer. A device driver is responsible for accessing the hardware registers of the device and often includes an interrupt handler to service interrupts generated by the device. Device drivers often form part of the lowest level of the operating system kernel, with which they are linked when the kernel is built. Some more recent systems have loadable device drivers which can be installed from files after the operating system is running.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- disincentives — Plural form of disincentive.
- disjunctively — In a disjunctive manner.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
- distinctively — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divine comedy — a narrative epic poem (14th century) by Dante.
- divine office — office (def 12c).
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- documentative — Of or pertaining to documents or documentation.
- domical vault — cloistered vault.
- driving chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- driving force — impetus
- duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
- economy drive — a campaign by the government or a firm to reduce expenditure and make savings
- effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- electroactive — (of living tissue) exhibiting electrical activity or responsive to electrical stimuli
- electromotive — Producing or tending to produce an electric current.
- enteric fever — typhoid
- equivalencing — Present participle of equivalence.
- equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
- equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- evangelically — In an evangelical manner, concerning evangelism.
- evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
- ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
- excessiveness — The property of being excessive.
- exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
- excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
- executive job — a job in which a person is responsible for the administration of a project, activity, or business