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15-letter words containing t, r, a, v, n, c

  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
  • interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • 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.
  • invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
  • native american — a person born in the United States.
  • native compiler — (programming, tool)   A compiler which runs on the computer for which it is producing machine code, in contrast to a cross-compiler, which produces code for a different computer.
  • negative charge — a charge that has more electrons than protons and has a lower electrical potential
  • neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • non-contrastive — not contrastive.
  • non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
  • nonconservative — Not conservative.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • over-accentuate — to give emphasis or prominence to.
  • over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • over-extraction — an act or instance of extracting: the extraction of a molar.
  • overachievement — to perform, especially academically, above the potential indicated by tests of one's mental ability or aptitude.
  • overapplication — excessive application
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • 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.
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overexpectation — excessive expectation
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
  • 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
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
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