15-letter words containing av
- aftershave balm — a soothing lotion for application to the face after shaving
- animal behavior — behavior (def 2).
- ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
- army-navy store — a retail store selling a stock of surplus army, naval, and other military apparel and goods, often at bargain rates.
- astronavigation — celestial navigation
- available light — the natural or usual light on a subject.
- avant la lettre — before the (specified) concept, word, person, etc. existed
- average revenue — the total receipts from sales divided by the number of units sold, frequently employed in price theory in conjunction with marginal revenue.
- avian influenza — an acute, usually fatal viral disease of chickens and other domestic and wild birds except pigeons, characterized by sudden onset of symptoms including fever, swollen head and neck, bluish-black comb and wattle, and difficult respiration.
- aviator glasses — sunglasses that look like goggles
- batting average — in baseball, a figure expressing the average batting efficiency of a player or team, figured by dividing the number of base hits by the number of official at-bats
- be having sb on — If you are having someone on, you are pretending that something is true when it is not true, for example as a joke or in order to tease them.
- bioavailability — the extent to which a drug or other substance is taken up by a specific tissue or organ after administration; the proportion of the dose of a drug that reaches the systemic circulation intact after administration by a route other than intravenous
- biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
- bohemia-moravia — a former German protectorate including Bohemia and Moravia, 1939–45.
- bravais lattice — any of 14 possible space lattices found in crystals
- 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.
- brazilian guava — a Brazilian shrub, Psidium guineense, of the myrtle family, having white-fleshed, greenish-yellow, bitter fruit.
- brillat-savarin — Anthelme (ɑ̃tɛlm). 1755–1826, French lawyer and gourmet; author of Physiologie du Goût (1825)
- cavalry officer — an officer in a cavalry regiment
- celo-navigation — celestial navigation.
- church slavonic — Old Church Slavonic, esp as preserved in the liturgical use of the Orthodox church
- circumnavigable — Able to be circumnavigated.
- circumnavigated — Simple past tense and past participle of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
- circumnavigator — A person who circumnavigates; that is, sails around the world.
- cleavage-planes — the act of cleaving or splitting.
- closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
- concavo-concave — (esp of a lens) having both sides concave; biconcave
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contravallation — fortifications built by besiegers around the place besieged
- convexo-concave — having one side convex and the other side concave
- cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
- davenport table — a table with drawers, having drop leaves at both ends, often placed in front of or behind a sofa.
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
- evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
- extravagantness — The quality of being extravagant.
- fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
- flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- foolscap octavo — a book size, 41⁄4 by 63⁄4 inches
- gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
- general average — Insurance. any damage or loss to a ship or its cargo voluntarily sustained, as freight jettisoned in a storm, by all parties to a voyage (distinguished from particular average). Abbreviation: G.A.
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
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