15-letter words containing ve
- 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
- breech delivery — birth of a baby with the feet or buttocks appearing first
- 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.
- buffer overflow — (programming) What happens when you try to store more data in a buffer than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun and firehose syndrome), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full. See also spam, overrun screw.
- bun in the oven — in the womb
- butterfly valve — a disc that acts as a valve by turning about a diameter, esp one used as the throttle valve in a carburettor
- button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
- 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.
- 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.
- catarrhal fever — bluetongue.
- central reserve — the strip, often covered with grass, that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway
- change of venue — the removal of a trial out of one jurisdiction into another
- character level — the stage or rank of a player character in a role-playing game or video game: When you advance to a higher character level, your character will have access to more advanced skills.
- 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.
- chief executive — the person with overall responsibility for the efficient running of a company, organization, etc
- circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
- closed traverse — a traverse ending at its point of origin.
- 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
- coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
- collective farm — (chiefly in Communist countries) a farm or group of farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
- collective mark — a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, a union, or other collective association to identify themselves as members.
- collective noun — A collective noun is a noun such as 'family' or 'team' that refers to a group of people or things.
- colour-reversal — (of film or photographic paper) designed to produce a positive image directly from a positive subject
- 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.
- concavo-concave — (esp of a lens) having both sides concave; biconcave
- conjunctiveness — the quality of being conjunctive
- consecutiveness — The state or quality of being consecutive.
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- contemplatively — given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contrapositives — (logic) Plural form of contrapositive.
- controversially — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- convection cell — a distinct volume of circulating fluid, in a fluid medium under gravity, that is heated from below and cooled from above: usually found in large groupings.
- convection oven — a type of oven which cooks food by circulating hot air