15-letter words containing i, n, v
- convection cell — a distinct volume of circulating fluid, in a fluid medium under gravity, that is heated from below and cooled from above: usually found in large groupings.
- convection oven — a type of oven which cooks food by circulating hot air
- conventionalise — Alternative spelling of conventionalize.
- conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
- conventionalist — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
- conventionalize — to make conventional
- converging lens — a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.
- conversationism — a colloquialism
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
- cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
- cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- data link level — data link layer
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
- deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
- definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- design recovery — (process) A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
- digestive gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
- direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- 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.