14-letter words containing v, i, l, e
- bicuspid valve — mitral valve
- big blue river — a river in SE Nebraska, flowing E and SE to the Kansas (Kaw) River. 300 miles (483 km) long.
- bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
- blessed virgin — the Virgin Mary
- blurred vision — a condition which makes it impossible to see clearly
- bound variable — (in the functional calculus) a variable occurring in a quantifier and in a sentential function within the scope of the quantifier.
- calamata olive — a purplish-black, almond-shaped olive with a fruity flavor and meaty texture, often split and cured in brine and packed in vinegar.
- canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- cavalier poets — a group of mid-17th-century English lyric poets, mostly courtiers of Charles I. Chief among them were Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace
- cervical smear — a smear of cellular material taken from the neck (cervix) of the uterus for detection of cancer
- chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- church visible — the entire body of Christian believers on earth.
- 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.
- coast live oak — California live oak.
- coated vesicle — a clathrin-covered vesicle that forms from the closure of a coated pit, engulfing the ligand-receptor complex in endocytosis.
- coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
- cog locomotive — a locomotive designed for operation on a rack railway.
- collectiveness — The state or quality of being collective.
- collectivistic — the political principle of centralized social and economic control, especially of all means of production.
- collectivities — Plural form of collectivity.
- collectivizing — Present participle of collectivize.
- 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.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
- conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- 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.
- conservatorial — of or relating to a conservator or conservators
- constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
- contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- conversational — Conversational means relating to, or similar to, casual and informal talk.
- convertibility — The quality of being convertible.
- convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.