15-letter words containing r, e, c, i, v, s
- 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.
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- digestive tract — alimentary canal
- 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.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- 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.
- 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.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
- molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.