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15-letter words containing r, e, v, i

  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • careers adviser — a person trained in giving vocational advice, esp in secondary, further, or higher education
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
  • cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
  • cervical plexus — a network of nerves branching from the spinal nerves of the neck region and innervating the neck, chest, diaphragm, and part of the face.
  • charlottesville — city in central Va.: pop. 45,000
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
  • cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
  • cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
  • chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
  • collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
  • comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
  • comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
  • comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
  • conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
  • conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
  • consideratively — in a considerative manner
  • contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
  • contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
  • controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • counterviolence — the retaliatory use of violence
  • courier service — a special delivery service
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