15-letter words containing e, v, c, t, i, o
- 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.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- 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.
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
- liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- 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.
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- muzzle velocity — the speed of a projectile, usually expressed in feet or meters per second, as it leaves the muzzle of a gun.
- nastic movement — a response of plant parts that is independent of the direction of the external stimulus, such as the opening of buds caused by an alteration in light intensity
- 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.
- negative income — invested income that has produced a loss and hence may yield a tax deduction.
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- non-achievement — lack of achievement
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-consecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
- 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.
- non-instinctive — prompted by or resulting from or as if from instinct; natural; unlearned: an instinctive will to survive.
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonanticipative — Not anticipative.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- open convention — a party convention at which delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
- over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-articulate — excessively articulate