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15-letter words containing c, i, v, e

  • correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
  • cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • courier service — a special delivery service
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
  • crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
  • crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • delivered price — a quoted price of merchandise, as steel, that includes freight charges from the basing point to the point of delivery, usually f.o.b.
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
  • distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • 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
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
  • every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
  • 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.
  • eviction notice — an advance notice that someone must leave a property
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