14-letter words containing r, a, v
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- derivationally — In a derivational manner.
- derivativeness — the quality of being derivative
- derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
- derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical derivative.
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- 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
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
- diverticulated — having diverticula
- dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- each and every — all
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- 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.
- evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- ever and again — now and then; from time to time
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
- exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
- extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
- extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.