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

  • reconstructive — tending to reconstruct.
  • recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • recurvirostral — with a beak which is bent upwards
  • reflectiveness — that reflects; reflecting.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • retrodirective — (of a mirror, reflector, etc.) having three reflecting surfaces so oriented that a ray of light is reflected in a direction parallel but opposite to its original direction.
  • revenue cutter — cutter (def 4).
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
  • revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
  • sackville-west — Dame Victoria Mary ("Vita") 1892–1962, English poet and novelist (wife of Harold Nicolson).
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
  • secret service — the branch of governmental service that conducts secret investigations, especially investigations into the military strength of other nations.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
  • semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
  • service center — an authorized commercial establishment for repairs and replacement parts for appliances or cars.
  • service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
  • service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
  • service tunnel — a tunnel alongside another which is used for services such as maintenance, repairs, etc
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
  • sheva brachoth — the seven blessings said during the marriage service and repeated at the celebration thereafter
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • silent service — the submarine service (usually preceded by the).
  • slave bracelet — a braceletlike, ornamental circlet or chain worn around the ankle.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • slit fricative — a fricative, as (f) or (th), in which the tongue is relatively flat, with air channeled over it through a shallow slit.
  • sovietological — of or relating to Sovietology
  • state services — services appointed to commemorate days of national celebration or deliverance such as the accession of a sovereign
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
  • subjectivities — the state or quality of being subjective; subjectiveness.
  • supereffective — very or extremely effective
  • superstructive — built onto a structure
  • surface-active — (of a substance, esp a detergent) capable of lowering the surface tension of a liquid, usually water
  • target vehicle — a spacecraft used to develop and practise orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques in preparation for the lunar missions
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • to break cover — If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
  • to give 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 fixed period of time.
  • tractive force — the force measured in the drawbar of a locomotive or tractor
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