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

  • over-confidence — too confident.
  • over-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
  • overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overentertained — entertained to excess
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • overopinionated — too opinionated
  • overrepresented — represented disproportionately or in too large a number (corresponding to the number in the population, etc)
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • 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.
  • prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • receiving order — court order
  • reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
  • seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
  • 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.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
  • underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • undeservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
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