15-letter words containing g, a, v, e, l
- guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
- living quarters — accommodation
- metacognitively — In a metacognitive way.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- native language — first language, mother tongue
- non-evangelical — Also, evangelic. pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-overlapping — to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
- non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- nongovernmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- prairie village — a city in E Kansas.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- the everlasting — God
- the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication