14-letter words containing i, v, o
- belvoir castle — a castle in Leicestershire, near Grantham (in Lincolnshire): seat of the Dukes of Rutland; rebuilt by James Wyatt in 1816
- big government — a form of government characterized by high taxation and public spending and centralization of political power
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- 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.
- camillo cavour — Camillo Benso di [kah-meel-law ben-saw dee] /kɑˈmil lɔ ˈbɛn sɔ di/ (Show IPA), 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy.
- 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.
- 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.
- cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
- carnarvonshire — Caernarvon.
- 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
- chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- 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.
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis
- cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
- ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
- civilizational — relating to civilization
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- coercive force — a measure of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material as expressed by the external magnetic field strength necessary to demagnetize it. Measured in amperes per metre
- coercive-force — the magnetic intensity needed to reduce to zero the magnetic flux density of a fully magnetized magnetic specimen or to demagnetize a magnet.
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
- cog locomotive — a locomotive designed for operation on a rack railway.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- collectiveness — The state or quality of being collective.
- collectivistic — the political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.
- collectivities — Plural form of collectivity.
- collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
- colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
- command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
- common divisor — a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.
- composite vote — a voting result arrived at through averaging or combining other votes
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- computer virus — virus
- concanavalin a — a lectin isolated from jack bean that agglutinates red blood cells, human cancer cells, etc. and causes resting cells to divide: used to stimulate or test the activity of certain cells, as T cells
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- conjunctivitis — Conjunctivitis is an eye infection which causes the thin skin that covers the eye to become red.
- conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators