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15-letter words containing u, v, a, l, e

  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lazy evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • 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.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • milliequivalent — a unit of measure, applied to electrolytes, that expresses the combining power of a substance. Abbreviation: mEq.
  • molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
  • multiple-valued — many-valued.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • native language — first language, mother tongue
  • 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
  • neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • non-qualitative — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
  • over-articulate — excessively articulate
  • over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
  • over-particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
  • over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • 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.
  • overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
  • puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
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