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14-letter words containing iv

  • 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
  • dividend yield — a company's annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization
  • divine healing — healing through divine intervention as in response to prayer or because of faith.
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • divine service — service1 (def 15).
  • divinylbenzene — a clear liquid, C 10 H 10 , easily polymerized, used in the manufacture of rubbers, drying oils, ion-exchange resins, and polyesters.
  • 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
  • driving mirror — (in a vehicle) the rear-view mirror
  • driving school — vehicle operation lessons
  • east liverpool — a city in E Ohio, on the Ohio River.
  • effective dose — the amount of a drug, or level of radiation exposure, that is sufficient to achieve the desired clinical improvement.
  • estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
  • ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
  • executive park — a commercial complex consisting of an office building set in parklike surroundings, often with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreational areas.
  • exhaustiveness — The state of being exhaustive.
  • exploitatively — In an exploitative manner.
  • expressiveness — The quality of being expressive; expressivity.
  • extra dividend — a dividend paid to stockholders in addition to the regular dividend.
  • false negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-negative — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test failed to recognize an existing condition or finding. a person who receives this test result.
  • false-positive — Medicine/Medical. a test result that is incorrect because the test indicated a condition or finding that does not exist: a false-positive for syphilis. a person who receives this test result.
  • festive season — People sometimes refer to the Christmas period as the festive season.
  • figurativeness — The property of being figurative.
  • final dividend — the dividend paid on the basis of a company's results for a whole financial year. The final dividend is usually voted on at a company's AGM
  • first division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the best records at a particular time (opposed to second division).
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • forehand drive — (in racket sports) a type of shot made on the forehand side
  • friction drive — a power transmission system utilizing a set of friction gears so arranged that varying their positions relative to one another gives a wide range of speed ratios.
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • fructificative — having the ability to yield or produce fruit.
  • gingivectomies — Plural form of gingivectomy.
  • give credit to — to have confidence or trust in; believe
  • give effect to — to put into practice; make operative
  • give free rein — to allow considerable freedom; remove restraints
  • give it up for — If an audience is asked to give it up for a performer, they are being asked to applaud.
  • give sb a bell — If you give someone a bell, you telephone them.
  • give sb a ring — If you give someone a ring, you phone them.
  • give sb notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a short fixed period of time.
  • given that sth — If you say given that something is the case, you mean taking that fact into account.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • group genitive — (in English) a construction in which the genitive ending 's is added to an entire phrase, especially when added to a word other than the head of the noun phrase, as the woman who lives across the street's in That is the woman who lives across the street's cat or the people next-door's in The people next-door's house is for rent.
  • hand-delivered — (of a letter or parcel) delivered by the sender rather than a postman or courier
  • heat-sensitive — responding to heat or to changes in temperature
  • high explosive — a class of explosive, as TNT, in which the reaction is so rapid as to be practically instantaneous, used in shells and bombs.
  • hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
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