15-letter words containing a, l, u, v
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- s'il vous plait — if you please; please
- sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- subcivilization — a division of a civilization
- subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
- subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- surrender value — cash value.
- survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
- sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
- tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- 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.
- trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable