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14-letter words containing v, e, c, t

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • detective-like — like a detective; having characteristics of a detective
  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
  • discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
  • disincentivise — Alternative spelling of disincentivize.
  • disincentivize — to discourage or deter by removing incentives: The expiration of tax credits will disincentivize future participation in the energy-efficiency program. More affordable cholesterol-lowering medication may disincentivize people from adopting a vegetarian diet.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
  • east cleveland — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • eleventh chord — a chord much used in jazz, consisting of a major or minor triad upon which are superimposed the seventh, ninth, and eleventh above the root
  • endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.
  • 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.
  • eviction order — a legally enforceable order from a court to leave a property
  • 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.
  • 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
  • export invoice — a document issued by an exporter to an importer listing the goods or services supplied and stating the sum of money due
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • george calvert — Charles (3rd Baron Baltimore) 1637–1715, English colonial administrator in America: governor (1661–75) and proprietor (1675–89) of Maryland (grandson of George Calvert).
  • george v coast — a coastal region in Antarctica, along the Indian Ocean coast.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
  • have a stomack — to be pregnant
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