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15-letter words containing d, e, c, i, v

  • distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • 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.
  • impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • literary device — technique used in writing
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
  • 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.
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • receiving order — court order
  • reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • 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.
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