15-letter words containing d, i, v, n, e
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- native canadian — a person born in Canada of American Indian or Inuit descent.
- 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.
- 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.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- 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.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- over-confidence — too confident.
- over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- overentertained — entertained to excess
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- overopinionated — too opinionated
- 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.
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- povidone-iodine — a complex of iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone that has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity: used as an antiseptic.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
- second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
- 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.
- simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one