15-letter words containing e, v, n, t
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- put one over on — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
- reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
- reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
- rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
- self-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
- self-initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
- 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.
- semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- seventy-seventh — next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
- simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
- st. kitts-nevis — a twin-island state in the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies, consisting of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis: formerly a British colony and member of the West Indies Associated States; gained independence 1983. 104 sq. mi. (269 sq. km). Capital: Basseterre.