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15-letter words containing a, v, n

  • bare infinitive — an infinitive verb form without to, used with certain auxiliary verbs , as in I must go. All I did was ask. We might win.
  • barn conversion — the adaptation of a farm barn into a building serving a different use, such as a house or commercial premises
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
  • be having sb on — If you are having someone on, you are pretending that something is true when it is not true, for example as a joke or in order to tease them.
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • brazilian guava — a Brazilian shrub, Psidium guineense, of the myrtle family, having white-fleshed, greenish-yellow, bitter fruit.
  • breakbone fever — dengue
  • 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
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • brillat-savarin — Anthelme (ɑ̃tɛlm). 1755–1826, French lawyer and gourmet; author of Physiologie du Goût (1825)
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • 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.
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
  • cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
  • circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
  • circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
  • civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • concavo-concave — (esp of a lens) having both sides concave; biconcave
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
  • conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
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