15-letter words containing d, e, v, o, t
- dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
- dose equivalent — a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the absorber: measured in Sievert or rem.
- double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
- double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
- dr. strangelove — a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.
- east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
- evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
- executive board — administrative committee
- executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
- first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
- go to 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.
- government bond — a bond issued by a country's government, in its own currency
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have got it bad — to be infatuated
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- 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.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- 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.
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- 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.
- locomotive shed — a shed in which locomotives are kept
- lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
- 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.
- 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.
- non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
- nonadjudicative — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
- nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- not give a damn — If you say that someone does not give a damn about something, you are emphasizing that they do not care about it at all.
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- 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
- ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
- 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.
- 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-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- over-structured — excessively structured or organized.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- 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.
- overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.