14-letter words containing c, l, a, v, t, e
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
- george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
- gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
- haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
- health service — system of medical care
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- 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
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- italian clover — crimson clover.
- levant morocco — a fine morocco leather with a large, irregular grain, used esp. in bookbinding
- macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
- much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
- multiplicative — tending to multiply or increase.
- music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
- non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
- non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
- noncorrelative — Not correlative.
- nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nonspeculative — not speculative
- novelistically — In a novelistic way.
- objective caml — (language) (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
- octave coupler — a mechanism on an organ and on some harpsichords that enables keys or pedals an octave apart to be played simultaneously
- over-tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- overallocation — Excess allocation.
- overanalytical — too analytical
- overcapitalize — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
- overcentralize — to centralize excessively
- overcomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
- overparticular — precise beyond necessity
- perceivability — capable of being perceived; perceptible.
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- pleural cavity — a narrow, fluid-filled space between the pleural membranes of the lung and the inner chest wall.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
- slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions