14-letter words containing e, r, i, v
- provident club — a hire-purchase system offered by some large retail organizations
- providentially — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- provincialised — to make provincial in character.
- public servant — a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment; person in public service.
- public service — the business of supplying an essential commodity, as gas or electricity, or a service, as transportation, to the general public.
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- put it over on — to deceive; trick
- quadrumvirates — Plural form of quadrumvirate.
- quicksilvering — the mercury on the back of a mirror
- quicksilverish — resembling quicksilver
- rabies vaccine — substance that inoculates against rabies
- radio receiver — an apparatus that receives incoming modulated radio waves and converts them into sound
- radiosensitive — (of certain tissues or organisms) sensitive to or destructible by various types of radiant energy, as x-rays, rays from radioactive material, or the like.
- rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- re-investigate — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- reactive power — Reactive power is the part of complex power that corresponds to storage and retrieval of energy rather than consumption.
- recapitulative — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- receivableness — the fact or condition of being receivable; receivability
- receiving line — a row formed by the hosts, guests of honor, or the like, for receiving guests formally at a ball, reception, etc.
- 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.
- recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
- recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
- red deer river — a river in SW Alberta and W Saskatchewan, Canada, flowing generally E from the Rocky Mountains to the South Saskatchewan River. 385 miles (619 km) long.
- red-eyed vireo — an American vireo, Vireo olivaceus, having olive-green and white plumage and red irises.
- redintegrative — to make whole again; restore to a perfect state; renew; reestablish.
- redistributive — favoring, supporting, or practicing income redistribution: the redistributive effects of public spending.
- reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
- reflexive verb — A reflexive verb is a transitive verb whose subject and object always refer to the same person or thing, so the object is always a reflexive pronoun. An example is 'to enjoy yourself', as in 'Did you enjoy yourself?'.
- regressive tax — a tax which is levied or graduated so that the rate decreases as the amount taxed increases
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- reintervention — the act or fact of intervening.
- reinvigorating — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- reinvigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- relativization — to regard as or make relative.
- relieving arch — discharging arch.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- repetitiveness — pertaining to or characterized by repetition.
- representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
- responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- 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.
- revenue tariff — a tariff or duty imposed on imports primarily to produce public revenue.