14-letter words containing t, s, a, v, o
- 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
- disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- 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
- 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.
- evangelisation — Alternative spelling of evangelization.
- extravasations — Plural form of extravasation.
- 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-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.
- fashion victim — A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly.
- 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.
- 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.
- galvanizations — Plural form of galvanization.
- galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
- galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
- galveston plan — commission plan.
- gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
- george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- 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.
- have a shot at — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- have a stomack — to be pregnant
- have sth on sb — If someone has something on you, they have evidence that you have done something wrong or bad. If they have nothing on you, they cannot prove that you have done anything wrong or bad.
- 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.
- innovativeness — tending to innovate, or introduce something new or different; characterized by innovation.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- investigations — Plural form of investigation.
- 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.
- konstantinovka — a city in E Ukraine, NW of Gorlovka.
- love-in-a-mist — a plant, Nigella damascena, of the buttercup family, having feathery dissected leaves and whitish or blue flowers.
- mattress cover — a cover that can be put over a mattress before a bed sheet, providing further protection
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- 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.
- mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- multivibrators — Plural form of multivibrator.
- musca volitans — floater (def 6).
- naval hospital — a hospital that provides treatment for people in the Navy