14-letter words containing v, a, l, e, r
- 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.
- 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.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- 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.
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- 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
- 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.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- derivationally — In a derivational manner.
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diverticulated — having diverticula
- dollar-average — to engage in dollar averaging.
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- 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
- east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
- electoral vote — the number of electors that each state or federal district is allowed to have
- electrovalence — Alternative form of electrovalency.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- elevated train — a train that runs on an elevated railway
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- elevator shaft — passage for a lift
- eleventh grade — the eleventh year of school, when students are 16 or 17 years old
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- 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.
- fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
- five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
- flavorlessness — The state or condition of being flavorless; lack of flavor.
- flavorsomeness — The quality of being flavorsome.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- 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.
- front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
- full-flavoured — Full-flavoured food or wine has a pleasant fairly strong taste.
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.