15-letter words containing s, c, a, v, e, n
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- 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.
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- 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.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- male chauvinism — the beliefs, attitudes, or behavior of male chauvinists (men who patronize, disparage, or otherwise denigrate females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit).
- male chauvinist — a male who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates females in the belief that they are inferior to males and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- nastic movement — a response of plant parts that is independent of the direction of the external stimulus, such as the opening of buds caused by an alteration in light intensity
- 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-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-conveyances — the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcompensates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
- save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
- scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
- seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- shoshone cavern — a large cave in NW Wyoming: a national monument.
- significatively — serving to signify.