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15-letter words containing l, e, v, a, n, d

  • maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • melville island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, N of Canada, belonging to Canada. 200 miles (320 km) long; 130 miles (210 km) wide.
  • mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • non-duplicative — a copy exactly like an original.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • richard nevilleEarl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
  • valentine's day — February 14, observed in honor of St. Valentine as a day for the exchange of valentines and other tokens of affection.
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • venetian dentil — (on an archivolt or molding) one of a series of small rectangular blocks having chamfers at alternate edges.
  • vincent de paulSaint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
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