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15-letter words containing e, v, n, t, m

  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • innominate vein — brachiocephalic vein.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • 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.
  • investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
  • 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.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • 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 american — a person born in the United States.
  • 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.
  • native immunity — immunity that is present without prior immunization.
  • negative income — invested income that has produced a loss and hence may yield a tax deduction.
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • non-achievement — lack of achievement
  • non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
  • non-improvement — an act of improving or the state of being improved.
  • non-informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • nonfermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
  • nongovernmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
  • open government — the doctrine that all government business should be open to regulation and scrutiny by the public
  • over-assessment — too much assessment
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-estimation — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • over-excitement — to excite too much.
  • overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
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