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

  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • 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.
  • nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • 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.
  • over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overentertained — entertained to excess
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • overopinionated — too opinionated
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
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