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14-letter words containing r, e, v, i, n

  • civil engineer — A civil engineer is a person who plans, designs, and constructs roads, bridges, harbours, and public buildings.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • 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).
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • 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
  • conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
  • constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
  • contrapositive — placed opposite or against
  • contravariance — (computer science) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator.
  • contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
  • controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
  • controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
  • conventioneers — Plural form of conventioneer.
  • conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • conversion van — a van for utility use that has been customized with a luxury interior
  • converted rice — white rice prepared from brown rice that has been pressure-steamed to enable the nutrients within the bran to be absorbed by the starchy endosperm before the rice is dried and milled.
  • convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
  • cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
  • deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • depressiveness — The state of being depressive.
  • 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 control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • 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)
  • digressiveness — The quality or state of being digressive.
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
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