15-letter words containing s, e, r, v, i
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- 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.
- courier service — a special delivery service
- coxsackie virus — any of various viruses that occur in the intestinal tract of man and cause diseases, some of which resemble poliomyelitis
- 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.
- 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.
- delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- 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.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- 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.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- 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.
- divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
- 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.
- driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
- dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- electropositive — Electrically positive.
- erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
- evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- 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.
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- 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.
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- 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.
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
- give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country