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14-letter words containing u, v, a

  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • 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.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • curvaceousness — the quality of having an attractively curved figure
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • deindividuated — Simple past tense and past participle of deindividuate.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • dissuasiveness — The quality of being dissuasive.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • eau de javelle — Javel water.
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • enfant sauvage — a person given to naive, undisciplined, or unpredictable behaviour, largely because of youth and inexperience
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
  • expected value — the sum or integral of all possible values of a random variable, or any given function of it, multiplied by the respective probabilities of the values of the variable. Symbol: E(X). E(X) is the mean of the distribution; E(X–c) = E(X)–c where c is a constant
  • exposure value — the quantity of light hitting a photographic film, as determined by aperture values and shutter speed
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastrovascular — serving for digestion and circulation, as a cavity.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • have bought it — to be killed
  • haven't a clue — If you haven't a clue about something, you do not know anything about it or you have no idea what to do about it.
  • heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
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