15-letter words containing c, i, v, e
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- receiving order — court order
- reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- rescue services — emergency services comprising employees, equipment, etc, which serve to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
- reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- richelieu river — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
- sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
- scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
- second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
- self-reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
- seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
- service ceiling — the height above sea level, measured under standard conditions, at which the rate of climb of an aircraft has fallen to a specified amount
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- shuttle service — transport going back and forth
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
- sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- social services — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
- stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.