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15-letter words containing c, r, e, v

  • crossover value — the percentage of offspring showing recombination among the total offspring of a given cross. It indicates the amount of crossing over that has occurred and therefore the relative positions of the genes on the chromosomes
  • crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
  • culture vulture — a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • delivered price — a quoted price of merchandise, as steel, that includes freight charges from the basing point to the point of delivery, usually f.o.b.
  • delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • 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.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • 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.
  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
  • 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.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • 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
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • 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.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • 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
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
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