15-letter words containing a, d, v, e, n
- digestive gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
- gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have a nice day — pleasantry
- have an edge on — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
- have had enough — be weary, exasperated
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- island universe — an external galaxy.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- media converter — (networking) A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
- nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.