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15-letter words containing v, e, n

  • benevolent fund — a charitable organization
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • blagoveshchensk — a city and port in E Russia, in Siberia on the Amur River. Pop: 222 000 (2005 est)
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • breakbone fever — dengue
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • breakeven chart — a graph measuring the value of an enterprise's revenue and costs against some index of its activity, such as percentage capacity. The intersection of the total revenue and total cost curves gives the breakeven point
  • breakeven point — a point at which the total revenue and total cost are equal
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • bulimia nervosa — a disorder characterized by compulsive overeating followed by vomiting: sometimes associated with anxiety about gaining weight
  • bun in the oven — in the womb
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • caernarvonshire — (until 1974) a county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd
  • calvin coolidge — Calvin, 1872–1933, 30th president of the U.S. 1923–29.
  • cantilever beam — a long thick straight-sided piece of wood, metal, concrete, etc that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
  • cape horn fever — illness feigned by malingerers.
  • cardinal virtue — anything considered to be an important or characteristic virtue: Tenacity is his cardinal virtue.
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • carnivorousness — flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal.
  • carpentersville — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • cartesian diver — a glass vessel partially filled with water and covered with an airtight membrane, containing a hollow object that is open at the bottom and contains just enough air to allow it to float. Pressing on the membrane compresses the air in the vessel and forces water into the object, causing it to sink; releasing the membrane causes it to rise.
  • celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
  • central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
  • cervical cancer — a cancer of the cervix (the lower end of the womb)
  • change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
  • charm offensive — If you say that someone has launched a charm offensive, you disapprove of the fact that they are being very friendly to their opponents or people who are causing problems for them.
  • chemoprevention — the prevention of disease, esp cancer, by means of chemical agents
  • chicken-livered — timid; fearful; cowardly.
  • circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
  • circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
  • 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.
  • 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
  • computer vision — a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
  • concavo-concave — (esp of a lens) having both sides concave; biconcave
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • confidence vote — a vote to clarify whether someone or something has the support of those present
  • conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
  • consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
  • conservationism — A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources.
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