14-letter words containing v, e, r, t, i
- clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- computer virus — virus
- 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.
- conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- conservatories — Plural form of conservatory.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
- contrapositive — placed opposite or against
- contravariance — (computer science) The reversal of the order of data types acted upon by an operator.
- contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- conventioneers — Plural form of conventioneer.
- conventiongoer — A person attending a convention.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- 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.
- convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- 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.
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cryoprotective — protecting against damage caused by cryopreservation
- 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.
- cytoprotective — (biology) That provides cytoprotection.
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- 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.
- deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
- deliverability — capable of delivery.
- delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
- demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
- 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.
- desert varnish — the dark, lustrous coating or crust, usually of manganese and iron oxides, that forms on rocks, pebbles, etc., when exposed to weathering in the desert.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- determinatives — Plural form of determinative.
- 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
- disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
- disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
- disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.