15-letter words containing v, e, n
- 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.
- 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 novel — a novel in which a detective tries to solve a crime
- developing bath — an amount of photographic developer into which photographic film or paper is inserted
- developing tank — a container used to develop photographic film and which enables the film to be developed in daylight
- developmentally — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- devitrification — The formation of small crystals in a glass as a result of slow cooling from the molten state.
- 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.
- direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
- disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
- 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.
- drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
- 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.
- 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.
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
- 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.
- 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.
- eviction notice — an advance notice that someone must leave a property
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
- experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture