14-letter words containing v, d
- canadian river — a river in the southern US, rising in NE New Mexico and flowing east to the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Length: 1458 km (906 miles)
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- cardiovascular — of the heart and the blood vessels as a unified body system
- carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
- cevitamic acid — ascorbic acid
- chevra kadisha — a Jewish burial society, usually composed of unpaid volunteers who provide funerals for members of their congregation
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
- ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- colorado river — a state in the W United States. 104,247 sq. mi. (270,000 sq. km). Capital: Denver. Abbreviation: CO (for use with zip code), Col., Colo.
- command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
- common divisor — a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.
- compound ovary — an ovary composed of more than one carpel.
- conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
- converted rice — white rice prepared from brown rice that has been pressure-steamed to enable the nutrients within the bran to be absorbed by the starchy endosperm before the rice is dried and milled.
- convolutedness — twisted; coiled.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- covered market — an indoor market
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- crushed velvet — velvet with a flat finish that has a creased effect
- cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
- 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
- dead-and-alive — (of a place, activity, or person) dull; uninteresting
- decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
- decollectivize — to organize (a people, industry, economy, etc.) according to the principles of collectivism.
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate
- decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
- deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
- deer fly fever — tularemia.
- 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.
- defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
- definitiveness — most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study, or the like: the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson.
- deindividuated — Simple past tense and past participle of deindividuate.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
- 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.
- 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.