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15-letter words containing c, l, o, v

  • 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.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • 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.
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • oliver cromwell — Oliver, 1599–1658, English general, Puritan statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1653–58.
  • omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
  • 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).
  • over-articulate — excessively articulate
  • over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
  • over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • over-scrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
  • over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
  • overapplication — excessive application
  • overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
  • overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overcontrolling — excessively controlling
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • play havoc with — bring chaos to
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • 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.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
  • 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.
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
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