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15-letter words containing n, o, v, s

  • conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
  • conventionalist — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
  • 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.
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • convolvulaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Convolvulaceae, a family of plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and typically a climbing, twining, or prostrate habit: includes bindweed, morning-glory, and sweet potato
  • 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.
  • cover one's ass — to take such action as one considers necessary to avoid censure, ridicule, etc at a later time
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
  • 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.
  • depressor nerve — any nerve that when stimulated produces a fall in blood pressure by dilating the arteries or lowering the heartbeat
  • 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
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • 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.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
  • divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
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