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15-letter words containing v, a, n, l, e, c

  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • level one cache — primary cache
  • levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • 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.
  • metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
  • musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
  • 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.
  • never look back — to become increasingly successful
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • non-evangelical — Also, evangelic. pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings.
  • nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • 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-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • over-compliance — the act of conforming, acquiescing, or yielding.
  • overapplication — excessive application
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • 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.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
  • ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
  • universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.
  • valency grammar — a system of linguistic syntax, conceived by analogy with chemical valency, according to which verbs have valencies dependent on the number of noun phrases with which they combine
  • vanilla essence — a natural extract obtained from the pods of the vanilla plant and used to flavour sweet dishes
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
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