15-letter words containing i, m, o, v
- have to lump it — If you say that someone will have to lump it, you mean that they must accept a situation or decision whether they like it or not.
- heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypovitaminosis — Insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- 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 bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
- lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
- 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
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- mariano vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- 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.
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
- molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
- monovision lens — Ophthalmology. one of a pair of contact lenses that adjust one eye for farsightedness and the other for nearsightedness, used as an alternative to bifocal lenses.
- moravian church — a Protestant Church originating in Moravia in 1722 as a revival of the sect of Bohemian Brethren. It has close links with the Lutheran Church
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- 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
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
- multum in parvo — much in a small space
- muzzle velocity — the speed of a projectile, usually expressed in feet or meters per second, as it leaves the muzzle of a gun.
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- 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.
- navajo mountain — a solitary dome-shaped mountain in SE Utah. 10,388 feet (3168 meters).
- negative income — invested income that has produced a loss and hence may yield a tax deduction.