14-letter words containing c, o, v, e, t
- oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overstructured — excessively structured or organized.
- peace movement — a movement seeking to end wars and reduce nuclear weapons
- phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
- photoinductive — of, relating to, or being able to undergo photoinduction
- photoreceptive — of or relating to photoreception
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- 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.
- private sector — the area of the nation's economy under private rather than governmental control.
- proactiveness' — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- 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.
- proprioceptive — pertaining to proprioceptors, the stimuli acting upon them, or the nerve impulses initiated by them.
- protectiveness — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- proventriculus — the glandular portion of the stomach of birds, in which food is partially digested before passing to the ventriculus or gizzard.
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- reactor vessel — the container surrounding and protecting the core of a nuclear reactor.
- reconstitutive — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
- reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- 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.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
- short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
- sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
- sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
- stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
- to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
- to give 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 fixed period of time.
- tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
- tractor driver — a person who drives a motor vehicle used to pull heavy loads, esp farm machinery such as a plough or harvester
- travel voucher — a voucher, usually bought from a travel agency or won in a competition, etc, which can be used to pay for travel costs such as flights, accommodation, etc
- twelve o'clock — 12 noon, 1200 hours, midday
- unconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.