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14-letter words containing v, e, r

  • circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
  • circumvallated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumvallate.
  • circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
  • civil engineer — A civil engineer is a person who plans, designs, and constructs roads, bridges, harbours, and public buildings.
  • civil marriage — a marriage performed by some official other than a clergyman
  • class interval — one of the intervals into which the range of a variable of a distribution is divided, esp one of the divisions of the base line of a bar chart or histogram
  • clavicytherium — a kind of harpsichord
  • clive sinclair — (person)   Sir Clive Sinclair (1939- ) The British inventor who pioneered the home microcomputer market in the early 1980s, with the introduction of low-cost, easy to use, 8-bit computers produced by his company, Sinclair Research. Sir Clive also invented and produced a variety of electronic devices from the 1960s to 1990s, including pocket calculators (he marketed the first pocket calculator in the world), radios and televisions. Perhaps he is most famous (or some might say notorious) for his range electric vehicles, especially the Sinclair C5, introduced in 1985. He has been a member of MENSA, the high IQ society, since 1962.
  • cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
  • coercive force — a measure of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material as expressed by the external magnetic field strength necessary to demagnetize it. Measured in amperes per metre
  • coercive-force — the magnetic intensity needed to reduce to zero the magnetic flux density of a fully magnetized magnetic specimen or to demagnetize a magnet.
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee service — a set of china consisting of coffee cups and saucers, a pot, milk jug, and sugar bowl
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
  • compute server — (computer, parallel)   A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
  • 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.
  • control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
  • 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.
  • conversion van — a van for utility use that has been customized with a luxury interior
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
  • 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
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • coxsackievirus — any of a group of enteroviruses that cause several diseases, as viral meningitis
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crimson clover — an annual clover (Trifolium incarnatum) with elongated heads of deep-red flowers, often grown in the S U.S. as a cover or green-manure crop
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