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14-letter words containing s, r, i, v, a

  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
  • 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
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • derivativeness — the quality of being 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • forced savings — a reduction in consumption that occurs when there is full employment and an abundance of loans
  • francis xavierSaint 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!
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • 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.
  • handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • 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.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • hertzian waves — radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation resulting from the oscillations of electricity in a conductor
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
  • imperativeness — absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
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