15-letter words containing a, v, i, n
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- data link level — data link layer
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
- 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.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- 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.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
- evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- Évian-les-bains — a resort and spa town in E France, on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne; noted for its bottled mineral waters. Pop: 8064 (2006)
- eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
- galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.