15-letter words containing a, v, o, t

hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
hypovitaminosis — Insufficiency of one or more essential vitamins in the body.
image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
incentivization — (US, business, economics) The act or process of incentivizing.
incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
innominate vein — brachiocephalic vein.
inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
intervisitation — the act of visiting.
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.
investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
invitation card — a card given to someone to invite them to something
involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
kilovolt-ampere — an electrical unit, equal to 1000 volt-amperes. Abbreviation: kVA, kva.
labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
lazy evaluation — (reduction) An evaluation strategy combining normal order evaluation with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a closure - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one evaluation strategy used to implement non-strict functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: eager evaluation. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially lazy lists where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated.
length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
level two cache — secondary cache
levi-montalcini — Rita, 1909–2012, U.S. neurologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1986.
liver complaint — an unspecified health problem concerning the liver
loan investment — a loan made as an investment
low-level waste — waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea
manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
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.
medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization

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