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15-letter words containing v, e, s

  • customs service — The Customs Service is a United States federal organization which is responsible for collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. Compare Customs and Excise.
  • cytomegalovirus — a virus of the herpes virus family that may cause serious disease in patients whose immune systems are compromised
  • czechoslovakian — Czechoslovakian means the same as Czechoslovak.
  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • database server — A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and manages the database. It implies that database management functions, such as locating the actual record being requested, is performed in the server computer. Contrast with file server, which acts as a remote disk drive and requires that large parts of the database, for example, entire indexes, be transmitted to the user's computer where the real database management tasks are performed. First-generation personal computer database software was not designed for a network; thus, modified versions of the software released by the vendors employed the file server concept. Second-generation products, designed for local area networks, perform the management tasks in the server where they should be done, and consequently are turning the file server into a database server.
  • decorative arts — art that is meant to be useful as well as beautiful, as ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and textiles.
  • deep-sea diving — the activity of diving and exploring in the deep parts of the sea
  • definitive host — the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage
  • delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • 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.
  • depressor nerve — any nerve that when stimulated produces a fall in blood pressure by dilating the arteries or lowering the heartbeat
  • 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.
  • desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
  • digestive gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
  • digestive tract — alimentary canal
  • direct positive — a positive obtained from another positive without an intermediate step.
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
  • discovery inlet — an inlet of the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
  • disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • distinctiveness — serving to distinguish; characteristic; distinguishing: the distinctive stripes of the zebra.
  • diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
  • divertissements — Plural form of divertissement.
  • dolni vestonice — a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.
  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
  • evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
  • evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
  • everly brothers — the. US pop singing duo comprising Don Everly (born 1937) and Phil Everly 1939–2014, noted for their close harmonies
  • Évian-les-bains — a resort and spa town in E France, on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne; noted for its bottled mineral waters. Pop: 8064 (2006)
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
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