15-letter words containing d, a, r, e, v, i
- 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.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- 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.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- 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)
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- 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
- 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.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- villeda morales — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909?–71, Honduran diplomat and statesman: president 1957–63.
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- 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.