14-letter words containing ve
- childbed fever — puerperal fever.
- chinese leaves — the edible leaves of a Chinese cabbage
- 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.
- circumventable — Capable of being circumvented.
- 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
- 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.
- coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
- collectiveness — The state or quality of being collective.
- 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).
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- compulsiveness — compelling; compulsory.
- compute server — (computer, parallel) A kind of parallel processor where the parallel processors have no I/O except via a bus or other connection to a front-end processor which handles all I/O to disks, terminals and network. In some antiquated IBM mainframes, a second CPU was provided that could not access I/O devices, known as the slave or attached processor, while the CPU having access to all devices was known as the master processor.
- concavo-convex — having one side concave and the other side convex
- conclusiveness — serving to settle or decide a question; decisive; convincing: conclusive evidence.
- conglomerative — of, relating to, or resembling a conglomerate
- conservatively — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- constitutively — In a constitutive manner.
- constructively — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- 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
- contraventions — Plural form of contravention.
- control survey — an accurate survey of a region forming a basis for more detailed surveys.
- controvertible — to argue against; dispute; deny; oppose.
- controvertibly — In a controvertible manner.
- convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
- conventionally — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- 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.
- convexo-convex — (esp of a lens) having both sides convex; biconvex
- convulsiveness — The state or quality of being convulsive.
- cost-effective — Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
- costovertebral — (anatomy) Connecting a rib with the body of a vertebra.
- cover your ass — Cover your ass means the same as cover your , back2.
- cover-shoulder — a type of blouse worn in Ghana
- covered bridge — a bridge that is enclosed by a roof and walls.
- covered market — an indoor market