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

  • disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
  • divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
  • 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.
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • 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.
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
  • have a nice day — pleasantry
  • henry cavendishHenry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • indivisibleness — The state of being indivisible; indivisibility.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • 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
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jefferson davisAlexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • king's evidence — evidence for the crown given by an accused person against his or her alleged accomplices.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
  • liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • 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.
  • melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
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