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15-letter words containing e, v, c

  • pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • photorefractive — of or relating to a change in the index of refraction by spatial variations of the light intensity, as in a laser.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
  • positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
  • positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price-sensitive — likely to affect the price of property, esp shares and securities
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
  • projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
  • prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
  • publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
  • quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • 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
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • rescue services — emergency services comprising employees, equipment, etc, which serve to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • 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.
  • revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • richelieu river — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • self-reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
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