15-letter words containing s, t, e, v
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- conventionalise — Alternative spelling of conventionalize.
- conventionalism — advocacy of or conformity to that which is established
- conventionalist — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- conventual mass — the Mass celebrated daily in a convent church for all members of the conventual community.
- conversationism — a colloquialism
- conversationist — Someone skilled in the art of conversations.
- converted steel — cement steel.
- 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.
- cosignificative — having the same meaning or sense
- costermansville — former name of Bukavu.
- 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
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
- decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
- definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
- delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
- 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.
- 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 gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
- digestive tract — alimentary canal
- direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
- discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
- disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
- distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
- dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
- 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.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- 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.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- 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.