14-letter words containing e, a, v
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
- balanced valve — a valve designed so that pressure-induced forces from the fluid being controlled oppose one another so that resistance to opening and closing the valve is negligible.
- balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
- baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- bavarian cream — a cold dessert consisting of a rich custard set with gelatine and flavoured in various ways
- belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
- belgian endive — endive (def 2).
- belgian-endive — endive (def 2).
- belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
- beveridge plan — the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.
- bicuspid valve — mitral valve
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- bitter cassava — a species of cassava (Manihot esculenta) whose poisonous roots when processed yield tapioca starch
- bokhara clover — white melilot.
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- break-up value — the value of an organization assuming that it will not continue to trade
- bush, vannevar — Vannevar Bush
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- cabeza de vaca — ˈÁl‧ˈvar Núñez (ˈɑlvɑʀˈnunjɛθ) ; älˈvärno̅oˈnyet h) 1490?-1557?; Sp. explorer in the Americas
- cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
- calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- canadian river — a river in the southern US, rising in NE New Mexico and flowing east to the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Length: 1458 km (906 miles)
- canes venatici — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere near Ursa Major that contains the globular cluster M3 and the spiral whirlpool galaxy M51
- canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
- cape canaveral — a cape on the E coast of Florida: site of the US Air Force Missile Test Centre, from which the majority of US space missions have been launched
- captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
- carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
- case sensitive — case sensitivity
- case-sensitive — In computing, if a written word such as a password is case-sensitive, it must be written in a particular form, for example using all capital letters or all small letters, in order for the computer to recognize it.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- cavalry charge — a charge by mounted troops
- central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
- cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
- cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- cimarron-river — a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.
- circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
- class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord