15-letter words containing s, l, a, v, e, n
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
- living quarters — accommodation
- loan investment — a loan made as an investment
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- 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.
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
- net asset value — the total value of the assets of an organization less its liabilities and capital charges
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.