15-letter words containing i, n, v
- bun in the oven — in the womb
- cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
- caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
- calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
- cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
- cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
- cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
- carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
- carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
- celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
- cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
- charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
- chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
- chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
- civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
- closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
- computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
- conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
- confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constantine vii — known as Porphyrogenitus. 905–59 ad, Byzantine emperor (913–59) and scholar: his writings are an important source for Byzantine history
- constructivists — Plural form of constructivist.
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- contravallation — fortifications built by besiegers around the place besieged
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.