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16-letter words containing e, v, r, s

  • church invisible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth and in heaven.
  • chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
  • civic university — (in Britain) a university originally instituted as a higher education college serving a particular city
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • cluster variable — RR Lyrae star.
  • color television — tv set showing images in colour
  • compressed video — video compression
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservationists — Plural form of conservationist.
  • conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
  • conservativeness — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • constructiveness — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
  • conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion ratio — (in a reactor) the number of fissionable atoms produced by each fissionable atom that is destroyed.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • counterevidences — Plural form of counterevidence.
  • countermovements — Plural form of countermovement.
  • counteroffensive — a series of attacks by a defending force against an attacking enemy
  • couvade syndrome — a psychosomatic condition in which the spouse or partner of a pregnant woman experiences symptoms of childbirth or pregnancy
  • creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
  • creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
  • crossover bodice — a bodice which has one side crossing over the other
  • cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • currier and ives — any of a 19th-cent. series of prints showing the manners, people, and events of the times
  • customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
  • davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
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