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14-letter words containing t, r, a, v

  • bitter cassava — a species of cassava (Manihot esculenta) whose poisonous roots when processed yield tapioca starch
  • captive market — a group of consumers who are obliged through lack of choice to buy a particular product, thus giving the supplier a monopoly
  • cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
  • central valley — the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.
  • circumnavigate — If someone circumnavigates the world or an island, they sail all the way around it.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • conservational — the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights.
  • conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
  • conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
  • contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
  • contrapositive — placed opposite or against
  • contravariance — (computer science) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator.
  • contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
  • conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
  • 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.
  • covered market — an indoor market
  • 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.
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • 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
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
  • decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • 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.
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • derivativeness — the quality of being derivative
  • derivatization — the process of making a chemical compound into a derivative
  • derivitization — (organic chemistry) The formation of a chemical 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
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
  • 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.
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