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15-letter words containing o, v, e, r, c

  • conversationism — a colloquialism
  • conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
  • converted steel — cement steel.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
  • cooperativeness — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • correlativeness — The state or quality of being correlative.
  • costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
  • counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
  • counterevidence — evidence that refutes other evidence
  • countermovement — the act, process, or result of moving.
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • courier service — a special delivery service
  • covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
  • cover all bases — take full precautions
  • cover one's ass — to take such action as one considers necessary to avoid censure, ridicule, etc at a later time
  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
  • cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
  • 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
  • crossover value — the percentage of offspring showing recombination among the total offspring of a given cross. It indicates the amount of crossing over that has occurred and therefore the relative positions of the genes on the chromosomes
  • crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
  • curiosity value — value arising from rarity or strangeness rather than intrinsic worth
  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • 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
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • 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.
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • 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.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • 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.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
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