15-letter words containing d, i, s, v, a, l
- adlai stevenson — Adlai Ewing [ad-ley yoo-ing] /ˈæd leɪ ˈyu ɪŋ/ (Show IPA), 1835–1914, vice president of the U.S. 1893–97.
- andrada e silva — José Bonifacio de [zhaw-ze baw-nee-fah-syoo di] /ʒɔˈzɛ ˌbɔ niˈfɑ syʊ dɪ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1838, Brazilian statesman and scientist: architect of Brazilian independence.
- assisted living — Assisted living is a type of housing specially designed for people who need help in their everyday lives, but who do not need specialist nursing care. In assisted living facilities, residents live in independent rooms or apartments, but receive help with day-to-day activities, for example bathing, dressing, preparing meals, and taking their medicines.
- cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
- cheval de frise — a portable obstacle, usually a sawhorse, covered with projecting spikes or barbed wire, for military use in closing a passage, breaking in a defensive wall, etc.
- cheval-de-frise — a portable barrier of spikes, sword blades, etc, used to obstruct the passage of cavalry
- closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
- consideratively — in a considerative manner
- daylight saving — the practice of advancing standard time by one hour in the spring of each year and of setting it back by one hour in the fall in order to gain an extra period of daylight during the early evening.
- demonstratively — characterized by or given to open exhibition or expression of one's emotions, attitudes, etc., especially of love or affection: She wished her fiancé were more demonstrative.
- desilverization — the process of desilverizing (metal); the state of having been desilverized
- digestive gland — any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract, as the salivary glands, liver, and pancreas.
- disassimilative — of or relating to disassimilation
- divisional coin — a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
- dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
- 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.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- individualising — Present participle of individualise.
- individualistic — a person who shows great independence or individuality in thought or action.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- 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.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- living standard — standard of living.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- 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.
- salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
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