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15-letter words containing o, l, i, v, e, n

  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • 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.
  • field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • 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
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • 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.
  • javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lamino-alveolar — articulated with the blade of the tongue approaching the alveolar ridge.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
  • loving-kindness — tender kindness motivated by or expressing affection.
  • manila envelope — a large, usually brown, envelope, designed to carry documents without them having to be folded
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • mariano vallejo — César [Spanish se-sahr] /Spanish ˈsɛ sɑr/ (Show IPA), 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
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