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14-letter words containing e, v, c

  • 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.
  • process server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
  • process-server — a person who serves legal documents, as subpoenas, writs, or warrants, especially those requiring appearance in court.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • 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
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • rejuvenescence — becoming young again.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relieving arch — discharging arch.
  • reserve clause — the clause in the contract of a professional player in some sports that binds the player to a team for a season beyond the expiration of the contract in the event a new contract has not been made meanwhile or the player has not been sent to another team.
  • reservoir rock — rock that has sufficient porosity to contain accumulations of oil or gas.
  • 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 cutter — cutter (def 4).
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-charge — (of a telephone call) made at the recipient's expense
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
  • 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
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scenic reserve — an area of natural beauty, set aside for public recreation
  • school voucher — a government cash grant or tax credit for parents, equal to all or part of the cost of educating their child at an elementary or secondary school of their choice.
  • 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
  • screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
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