14-letter words containing r, v
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- 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.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- covered market — an indoor market
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- 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
- critical value — the value of the random variable at the boundary between the acceptance region and the rejection region in the testing of a hypothesis.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cryoprotective — protecting against damage caused by cryopreservation
- cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cytoprotective — (biology) That provides cytoprotection.
- 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
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- deer fly fever — tularemia.
- defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
- demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
- 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