15-letter words containing c, i, v, e
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- executive board — administrative committee
- executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
- fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
- first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
- foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
- 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.
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
- have a nice day — pleasantry
- have itchy feet — to be restless; have a desire to travel
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- imitative magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incentivization — (US, business, economics) The act or process of incentivizing.
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inconveniencies — inconvenience.
- inconveniencing — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.