15-letter words containing iv
- collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
- communicatively — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
- comparativeness — of or relating to comparison.
- competitiveness — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- comprehensively — Something that is done comprehensively is done thoroughly.
- comprehensivize — to make (an educational system) comprehensive
- conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- constructivists — Plural form of constructivist.
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- 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
- counteractively — In a counteractive manner.
- crocodile river — a river in N South Africa, rising north of Johannesburg and flowing north-westerly into the Marico River on the Botswanan border; a tributary of the Limpopo
- crossreactivity — Alternative spelling of cross-reactivity.
- dead on arrival — dead before reaching hospital
- 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
- deindividuation — the loss of a person's sense of individuality and personal responsibility
- delivered price — a quoted price of merchandise, as steel, that includes freight charges from the basing point to the point of delivery, usually f.o.b.
- delivery charge — A delivery charge is the cost of transporting or delivering goods.
- delivery system — any means or process for conveying a product or service to a recipient.
- 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.
- descriptiveness — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
- detective novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- detective story — a story in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- differentiative — That differentiates, or causes differentiation.
- 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.
- disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
- disincentivized — Simple past tense and past participle of disincentivize.
- 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.
- divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
- divided highway — a superhighway with a broad median strip, designed to prevent collisions, headlight glare, etc., between vehicles moving in opposite directions, and usually having limited or cloverleaf access.
- divinity school — a Protestant seminary.
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- 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.