16-letter words containing c, a, l, v, e
- nevado de toluca — a volcano in central Mexico, in Mexico state near Toluca: crater partly filled by a lake. Height: 4577 m (15 017 ft)
- new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
- no-fault divorce — a divorce granted without anyone being found guilty of marital misconduct
- non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- objective pascal — An extension of the PASCAL language which provides the possibility to use object-oriented programming constructs.
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- over-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- over-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
- private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
- projective plane — (mathematics) The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
- pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
- resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
- reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
- sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
- scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
- self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- sicilian vespers — a general massacre of the French in Sicily by the local population, begun at the sound of the vesper bell on Easter Monday, 1282.
- silver-lace vine — a hardy, twining, woody plant, Polygonum auberti, of the buckwheat family, native to western China and Tibet, having greenish-white, fragrant flowers in drooping clusters.
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
- steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
- superserviceable — overly disposed to be of service; officious.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.