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

  • 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
  • invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
  • 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.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • 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.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • 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.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • nizhni novgorod — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow, on the Volga River.
  • nizhny novgorod — city in central European Russia, at the Volga & Oka rivers: pop. 1,438,000
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • 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.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • 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.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • 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
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • 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
  • povidone-iodine — a complex of iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone that has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity: used as an antiseptic.
  • pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • receiving order — court order
  • revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
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