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14-letter words containing s, a, v, e

  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • devil's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
  • devil's tattoo — a rapid or nervous drumming with the fingers or feet
  • 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
  • disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
  • 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.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • 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
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • 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.
  • evangelicalism — (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism.
  • evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
  • evenhandedness — The quality or state of being evenhanded.
  • exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • 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.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • 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
  • francis xavier — Saint Francis (Francisco Javier"the Apostle of the Indies") 1506–52, Spanish Jesuit missionary, especially in India and Japan.
  • 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.
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • galveston plan — commission plan.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
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