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15-letter words containing d, e, n, r, v

  • dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • government bond — a bond issued by a country's government, in its own currency
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • 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.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • 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
  • lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
  • 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.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
  • media converter — (networking)   A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • 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.
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