15-letter words containing o, l, i, v
- conventionalize — to make conventional
- converging lens — a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.
- convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- 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.
- critical volume — the volume occupied by one mole or unit mass of a substance in its critical state
- crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
- curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
- cuticle remover — a substance used to remove the cuticle from around the base of one's nails
- cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
- czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- 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.
- deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- 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
- 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.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- dogtooth violet — Also called adder's-tongue, trout lily. any of several North American lilies of the genus Erythronium, having nodding flowers and usually mottled leaves.
- 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.
- 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.
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- 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.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- 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.
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- 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
- follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
- 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.