14-letter words containing o, s, i, v, r
- disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
- disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
- disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
- driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
- eta conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
- exercise video — a recorded television programme on which the presenter performs various keep-fit exercises, explaining how to perform each one, as the viewer joins in while watching
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
- franklin stove — a cast-iron stove having the general form of a fireplace with enclosed top, bottom, side, and back, the front being completely open or able to be closed by doors.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- georges cuvier — Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert [zhawrzh ley-aw-pawld krey-tyan frey-dey-reek da-gaw-ber] /ʒɔrʒ leɪ ɔˈpɔld kreɪˈtyɛ̃ freɪ deɪˈrik da gɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1769–1832, French naturalist: pioneer in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- hand over fist — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- health visitor — In Britain, a health visitor is a nurse whose job is to visit people in their homes and offer advice on matters such as how to look after very young babies or people with physical disabilities.
- heat reservoir — a hypothetical body of infinitely large mass capable of absorbing or rejecting unlimited quantities of heat without undergoing appreciable changes in temperature, pressure, or density.
- hendersonville — a city in S Tennessee.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- imperviousness — not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable: The coat is impervious to rain.
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- improvisations — Plural form of improvisation.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- inverse cosine — arc cosine.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- level crossing — grade crossing.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.