15-letter words containing n, o, u, v, e
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- lazy evaluation — (reduction) An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
- mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
- mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- multiple voting — the casting of ballots in more than one constituency in one election, as in England before the election reform of 1918.
- neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
- 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).
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-consecutive — following one another in uninterrupted succession or order; successive: six consecutive numbers, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
- non-consumptive — tending to consume; destructive; wasteful.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- non-substantive — a noun.
- non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nonquantitative — that is or may be estimated by quantity.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- on the qui vive — on the qui vive, on the alert; watchful: Special guards were on the qui vive for trespassers.
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- over-accentuate — to give emphasis or prominence to.
- over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
- over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
- overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.