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15-letter words containing v, e, r, n, i, c

  • covering letter — A covering letter is a letter that you send with a parcel or with another letter in order to provide extra information.
  • deprovincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • design recovery — (process)   A subtask of reverse engineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction of fuzzy reasoning are added to the observations of the subject system to identify meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. In other words, design recovery aims to work out what a system or component was designed to do rather than just examining its subcomponents and their interrelationships.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
  • direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
  • 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.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
  • interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
  • interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
  • interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
  • 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.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • 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.
  • morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
  • 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.
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