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14-letter words containing v, i, r

  • decorativeness — The condition of being decorative.
  • deep-sea diver — a person who takes part in deep-sea diving
  • 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 order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • demerara-river — a river in E Guyana flowing S to N and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Georgetown. 215 miles (346 km) long.
  • demisemiquaver — a note having the time value of one thirty-second of a semibreve
  • demonstratives — Plural form of demonstrative.
  • depressiveness — The state of being depressive.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • digressiveness — The quality or state of being digressive.
  • dinner service — set of crockery and cutlery
  • disadventurous — unlucky or disastrous
  • disaggregative — separating from the mass or into parts
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • disassortative — (mathematics) Describing a graph (or network) in which nodes of low degree are more likely to connect with nodes high degree.
  • disaster movie — a film in which a disastrous event such as an earthquake, fire, air crash etc is the focus of the action
  • 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.
  • disintegrative — to separate into parts or lose intactness or solidness; break up; deteriorate: The old book is gradually disintegrating with age.
  • disinvestiture — the act or state of being disinvested
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • disruptiveness — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
  • diverging lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
  • 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.
  • divertissement — a diversion or entertainment.
  • 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 liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • driving barrel — (in a weight-driven clock) the drum turned by the descent of the weight, which drives the clock mechanism.
  • driving lesson — a session involving driving practice and theory with a driving instructor
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