15-letter words containing c, l, i, v, a
- 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.
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- 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.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
- 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.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- 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.
- 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.
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
- literary device — technique used in writing
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
- molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- native compiler — (programming, tool) A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- non-evangelical — Also, evangelic. pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings.
- nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
- oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
- over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).