14-letter words containing v, i, c
- 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
- 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.
- cross-dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
- cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
- cryopreserving — Present participle of cryopreserve.
- cryoprotective — protecting against damage caused by cryopreservation
- cryptovolcanic — of or relating to a rock structure providing indirect or incomplete evidence of volcanism.
- crystal violet — a rosaniline dye, C25H30ClN3, used as an antiseptic, an indicator, and a bacterial stain in Gram's method
- cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
- curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
- cut-off device — a device that terminates the flow or supply of something
- cytoprotective — (biology) That provides cytoprotection.
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- dating service — a service that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- device manager — (operating system) The Microsoft Windows control panel applet used to enable, disable and configure the hardware on which Windows is running. You can launch Device Manager via the Control Panel/System or directly with: rundll32.exe devmgr.dll DeviceManager_Execute (2008-04-16)
- devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
- dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
- diaper service — a service that provides clean diapers to parents and takes away dirty diapers to wash them
- dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
- disassociative — That disassociates; that causes disassociation.
- discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
- discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
- discursiveness — passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive; rambling.
- 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.
- dividend cover — the number of times that a company's dividends to shareholders could be paid out of its annual profits after tax, used as an indication of the probability that dividends will be maintained in subsequent years
- divine service — service1 (def 15).
- do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
- driving school — vehicle operation lessons
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
- 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
- endocervicitis — (medicine) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the uterine cervix.