15-letter words containing g, r, o, v, e
- 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
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- 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.
- völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
- 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