14-letter words containing s, a, r, v, o
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- 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.
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- 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.
- exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
- 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
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- governableness — The state of being governable.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- grease remover — a substance that removes grease
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- 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.
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- 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.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- 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.
- mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
- markov process — a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
- marvellousness — The quality or state of being marvellous.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misgovernaunce — misgovernment
- misinformative — to give false or misleading information to.
- monotransitive — In grammar, pertaining to a transitive verb that takes a single mandatory object, either a direct object or a primary object depending on the language.
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- nizhnevartovsk — a city in W central Russia, an oil and gas center on the Ob River.
- non-aggressive — abstention from aggression, especially by a nation.
- non-conversant — familiar by use or study (usually followed by with): conversant with Spanish history.
- non-reservable — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
- nonassertively — In a nonassertive way.