15-letter words containing g, i, v, e, o, r
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- receiving order — court order
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- 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.
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- 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
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- video recording — sth filmed on videotape
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- 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
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes