14-letter words containing v, i, r
- 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).
- common divisor — a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- 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.
- constructivism — a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture
- constructivist — Fine Arts. a nonrepresentational style of art developed by a group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century, characterized chiefly by a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials. Compare suprematism.
- 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.
- 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.
- countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- david d'angers — (born Pierre Jean David) 1788?-1856; Fr. sculptor
- deconstructive — of or relating to deconstruction
- decorative art — any of the visual arts applied in order to render something more attractive or ornate