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

  • literary device — technique used in writing
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • 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.
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • 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.
  • medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
  • 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.
  • 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-confidence — too confident.
  • 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-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • 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.
  • paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
  • 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.
  • primo de rivera — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), Marqués de Estella [mahr-kes th e es-te-lyah] /mɑrˈkɛs ðɛ ɛsˈtɛ lyɑ/ (Show IPA), (Miguel Prima de Rivera y Orbaneja) 1870–1930, Spanish general and political leader: dictator of Spain 1923–29.
  • printer's devil — devil (def 5).
  • private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
  • radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
  • 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.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
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