14-letter words containing s, r, i, v
- 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.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
- conventioneers — Plural form of conventioneer.
- 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
- 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
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- 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
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- 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.
- 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
- digressiveness — The quality or state of being digressive.
- dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
- 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
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
- disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.