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14-letter words containing iv

  • carnival glass — a colorful iridescent pressed glassware popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century.
  • carriage drive — a private road for horse-drawn carriages, often connecting a house with a public road
  • case sensitive — case sensitivity
  • case-sensitive — In computing, if a written word such as a password is case-sensitive, it must be written in a particular form, for example using all capital letters or all small letters, in order for the computer to recognize it.
  • chemoreceptive — responsive to chemical stimuli
  • cheyenne river — a river flowing NE from E Wyoming to the Missouri River in South Dakota. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • cimarron-river — a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 miles (965 km) long.
  • circumspective — given to or marked by circumspection; watchful; cautious: His behavior was circumspective.
  • cisnormativity — (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
  • ciudad bolivar — a port in E Venezuela, on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels. Pop: 344 000 (2005 est)
  • 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
  • civil rightist — a person who actively supports or works for safeguarding or obtaining civil rights.
  • civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
  • civilizational — relating to civilization
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
  • conductivities — Plural form of conductivity.
  • conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
  • conjunctivitis — Conjunctivitis is an eye infection which causes the thin skin that covers the eye to become red.
  • conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • conservativism — Alternative form of conservatism.
  • constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
  • 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.
  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
  • contraceptives — A device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy.
  • contrapositive — placed opposite or against
  • convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.
  • cost of living — The cost of living is the average amount of money that people in a particular place need in order to be able to afford basic food, housing, and clothing.
  • cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
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