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15-letter words containing e, v, r, g

  • open government — the doctrine that all government business should be open to regulation and scrutiny by the public
  • ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
  • over-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
  • over-exaggerate — to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately: to exaggerate the difficulties of a situation.
  • over-irrigation — the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • overcontrolling — excessively controlling
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
  • overextravagant — excessively extravagant
  • overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
  • prairie village — a city in E Kansas.
  • 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-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • receiving order — court order
  • relapsing 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.
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • 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.
  • 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
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • 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-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
  • self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • service ceiling — the height above sea level, measured under standard conditions, at which the rate of climb of an aircraft has fallen to a specified amount
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