15-letter words containing d, r, i, v, e, s
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- 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.
- neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- 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-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- 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.
- 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.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- 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.
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
- 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.
- river blindness — onchocerciasis.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
- silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
- 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.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- 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.
- speller-divider — a reference book that lists words in alphabetical order to show spelling and syllabification.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- superindividual — greater than the individual
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- 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
- 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
- venus-s--girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- vested interest — a special interest in an existing system, arrangement, or institution for particular personal reasons.
- vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
- villeda morales — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909?–71, Honduran diplomat and statesman: president 1957–63.
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- vreni schneider — Vreni [vren-ee] /ˈvrɛn i/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Swiss Alpine ski racer.
- well-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.