15-letter words containing a, d, i, t, v
- pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- to have it made — If you say that someone has it made or has got it made, you mean that they are certain to be rich or successful.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- valentine's day — February 14, observed in honor of St. Valentine as a day for the exchange of valentines and other tokens of affection.
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- venetian dentil — (on an archivolt or molding) one of a series of small rectangular blocks having chamfers at alternate edges.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
- vincent de paul — Saint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
- vindicativeness — the quality or state of being vindicative
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
- well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.