14-letter words containing o, v, e
- avoidance play — a play by the declarer designed to prevent a particular opponent from taking the lead.
- backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
- balloon sleeve — a sleeve fitting tightly from wrist to elbow and becoming fully rounded from elbow to shoulder
- baseball glove — a padded glove with webbing between the thumb and index finger, worn by baseball players
- belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
- believe you me — You can use believe you me to emphasize that what you are saying is true.
- 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
- bokhara clover — white melilot.
- bouleversement — an overthrow or reversal; violent turmoil
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- boundary value — boundary value analysis
- bowel movement — the discharge of faeces; defecation
- break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
- buffer overrun — buffer overflow
- by the vanload — in very large quantities
- cadaverousness — of or like a corpse.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Československo — Czechoslovakia
- 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.
- 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.
- cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
- 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).
- composite vote — a voting result arrived at through averaging or combining other votes
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- computer virus — virus