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15-letter words containing a, d, v, n

  • 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.
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • 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.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • over one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overentertained — entertained to excess
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • overopinionated — too opinionated
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • surrender value — cash value.
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