15-letter words containing a, v, c
- above suspicion — in such a position that no guilt may be thought or implied, esp through having an unblemished reputation
- accessory nerve — either one of the eleventh pair of cranial nerves, which supply the muscles of the head, shoulders, larynx, and pharynx and the viscera of the abdomen and thorax
- achieved status — the social position a person gains as a result of personal effort.
- achievement age — the age at which a child should be able to perform a standardized test successfully
- acquisitiveness — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- active hydrogen — hydrogen in the form of single atoms, rather than molecules, which makes it extremely reactive.
- active immunity — immunity (to a disease) due to the production of antibodies by the body
- activity method — a type of teaching in which students acquire knowledge and understanding by participating in a set of specially designed activities, rather than by passively listening to a teacher
- activity series — a table of metals, listed in the order of their ability to replace other metals while in solution
- adaptive optics — a technique used to increase the resolution of a ground-based astronomical telescope by counteracting the effects of the atmosphere on the image. A deforming mirror in the light path of the telescope maintains a pointlike image of the celestial body using either a real star or a laser beam as a reference
- adhesive factor — the ratio of the force that can be exerted on driving wheels with full traction to the weight on the driving wheels, usually expressed as a percentage.
- adjective group — An adjective group or adjectival group is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football'. An adjective group can also consist simply of an adjective.
- adjectivization — Grammar. to make into an adjective, as by adding a suffix: The noun mirth can be adjectivized by adding -ful or -less to form the adjectives mirthful and mirthless.
- advance payment — a sum of money paid in advance as a part or the whole of the sum due
- advanced credit — credit toward a degree allowed to a student by a college for courses taken elsewhere or for high scores on preliminary examinations
- advanced degree — an academic degree conferred for completion of requirements beyond the undergraduate college level, as M.S. or Ph.D.
- advanced higher — the highest level of qualification offered within the school system, replacing the former Certificate of Sixth Year Studies
- advantage court — the receiver's left-hand service court, into which the ball is served when one side has the advantage.
- advent calendar — a large card with a brightly coloured sometimes tinselled design on it that contains small numbered doors for children to open on each of the days of Advent, revealing pictures beneath them
- advocate depute — a Scottish law officer with the functions of public prosecutor
- aix-en-provence — a city and spa in SE France: the medieval capital of Provence. Pop: 145 721 (2006)
- anacostia river — a river in the District of Columbia flowing into the Potomac River. about 24 miles (39 km) long.
- anti-productive — having the power of producing; generative; creative: a productive effort.
- anticommutative — (of a binary operation) having the property that one term operating on a second is equal to the negative of the second operating on the first, as ab = −ba.
- anticompetitive — (in business) discouraging competition
- anticonvulsants — Plural form of anticonvulsant.
- antispeculative — opposed to or acting against speculation
- antivivisection — opposed to the act or practice or performing experiments on living animals, involving cutting into or dissecting the body
- apostolic vicar — vicar apostolic.
- approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
- at your service — You can use 'at your service' after your name as a formal way of introducing yourself to someone and saying that you are willing to help them in any way you can.
- autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
- autodestructive — likely to cause one's own destruction
- automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
- backseat driver — If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive.
- barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
- beta conversion — (theory) A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
- big black river — a river in N central Mississippi, flowing SW to the Mississippi River near Vicksburg. 330 miles (531 km) long.
- blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
- bravais lattice — any of 14 possible space lattices found in crystals
- breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
- breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
- bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
- cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
- caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
- calorific value — the quantity of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given mass of a fuel, usually expressed in joules per kilogram
- calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
- cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
- cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
- cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
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