15-letter words containing a, d, v, s
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- hard disk drive — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- individualising — Present participle of individualise.
- individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- island universe — an external galaxy.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.
- living standard — standard of living.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
- over one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- over-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.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- power save mode — (architecture) A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
- 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.
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- 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
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.