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15-letter words containing a, c, n, e, v

  • nonanticipative — Not anticipative.
  • nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
  • nonconservative — Not conservative.
  • nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • over-accentuate — to give emphasis or prominence to.
  • over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • over-extraction — an act or instance of extracting: the extraction of a molar.
  • overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overapplication — excessive application
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overexpectation — excessive expectation
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
  • sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
  • service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
  • servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
  • seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
  • seven-year itch — scabies.
  • shoshone cavern — a large cave in NW Wyoming: a national monument.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
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