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14-letter words containing l, a, v

  • civilizational — relating to civilization
  • 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.
  • cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • 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.
  • concanavalin a — a lectin isolated from jack bean that agglutinates red blood cells, human cancer cells, etc. and causes resting cells to divide: used to stimulate or test the activity of certain cells, as T cells
  • conceivability — capable of being conceived; imaginable.
  • 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
  • consultatively — of or relating to consultation; advisory.
  • contemplatives — Plural form of contemplative.
  • 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.
  • coquilhatville — former name of Mbandaka.
  • costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • 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.
  • cruciverbalism — the compilation of crosswords
  • cruciverbalist — a crossword puzzle enthusiast
  • 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
  • cumulativeness — The state or quality of being cumulative.
  • curvilinearity — consisting of or bounded by curved lines: a curvilinear figure.
  • czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
  • dead-and-alive — (of a place, activity, or person) dull; uninteresting
  • decivilization — those people or nations that have reached such a state.
  • deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
  • deliverability — capable of delivery.
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • devaluationist — a person, as an economist, who advocates the devaluation of a currency.
  • developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • devil's island — one of the three Safety Islands, off the coast of French Guiana: formerly a leper colony, then a French penal colony from 1895 until 1938. Area: less than 2 sq km (1 sq mile)
  • devil's tattoo — a rapid or nervous drumming with the fingers or feet
  • 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.
  • devitalization — The act of devitalizing.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • digital divide — the socioeconomic and other disparities between those people who have opportunities and skills enabling them to benefit from digital resources, especially the Internet, and those who do not have these opportunities or skills: programs that help to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor countries.
  • digital native — a person who has been familiar with computers, the Internet, and other digital technology from a young age. Compare digital immigrant.
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
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