15-letter words containing v, a, s, e, c, t
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- have a smack at — to attempt
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- 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.
- 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.
- misappreciative — not fully or properly appreciative
- nastic movement — a response of plant parts that is independent of the direction of the external stimulus, such as the opening of buds caused by an alteration in light intensity
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- non-acquisitive — tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- over-compensate — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- 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.
- overorchestrate — to compose or arrange excessively
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- 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.
- 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
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
- 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.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- 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.
- stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- transverse arch — a supporting arch or rib that runs across a vault from side to side, dividing the bays.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.