16-letter words containing c, i, v
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
- juvenile officer — a police officer concerned with juvenile delinquents.
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
- letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
- level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- lose one's voice — If you lose your voice, you cannot speak for a while because of an illness.
- machiavellianism — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
- male-voice choir — a choir of male singers
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- measuring device — gauge
- mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
- medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
- metavanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
- microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- military service — compulsory period spent in the army
- molotov cocktail — a crude incendiary grenade consisting of a bottle filled with a flammable liquid and a wick that is ignited before throwing: used originally for setting fire to enemy tanks during the Spanish Civil War.
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
- national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
- native americans — a person born in the United States.
- native companion — brolga.
- neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
- neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
- nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
- 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-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- non-contributive — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
- non-conventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- non-reproductive — serving to reproduce.
- noncommunicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- noncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
- nonfiction novel — a narrative dealing with real events and people, written in the form of a novel.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.