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15-letter words containing i, n, r, e, s, v

  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
  • natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
  • neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-contrastive — not contrastive.
  • non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
  • non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
  • nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
  • nonconservative — Not conservative.
  • nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • open university — higher education by correspondence
  • over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-estimation — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
  • over-passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • oversensitivity — excessively or unduly sensitive.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
  • post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • 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.
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