15-letter words containing v, a, n, t
- celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
- central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- circumvallating — Present participle of circumvallate.
- circumvallation — surrounded by or as if by a rampart.
- civilianization — the conversion from military to civilian status
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
- conservationist — A conservationist is someone who cares greatly about the conservation of the environment and who works to protect it.
- conservatorship — the legal status of a person appointed by a court to protect the interests of someone, such as a child, who is unable to manage his or her own affairs
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constantine vii — known as Porphyrogenitus. 905–59 ad, Byzantine emperor (913–59) and scholar: his writings are an important source for Byzantine history
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- contravallation — fortifications built by besiegers around the place besieged
- 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.
- conventionality — the quality or characteristic of being conventional, esp in behaviour, thinking, etc
- conventionalize — to make conventional
- 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.
- conveyorization — the process of conveyorizing
- 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.
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
- covaledictorian — A graduating student who shares the position of valedictorian with another student.
- danse du ventre — belly dance
- data link level — data link layer
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- death in venice — a novella (1913) by Thomas Mann.
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- demi-vegetarian — a person who eats poultry and fish, but no red meat
- 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.
- deprivatization — The act or process of deprivatizing.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted