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15-letter words containing s, i, l, v, a

  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
  • 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
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • heaviside layer — E layer.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
  • in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
  • individualities — Plural form of individuality.
  • inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • living standard — standard of living.
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
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