15-letter words containing c, o, v, i
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- 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
- electronegative — Electrically negative.
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- 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.
- eviction notice — an advance notice that someone must leave a property
- 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.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
- 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.
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- 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.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- 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
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.