15-letter words containing l, e, v
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- overcontrolling — excessively controlling
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overdevelopment — Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped.
- overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
- overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
- overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- 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.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- palato-alveolar — articulated with the blade or tip of the tongue approaching or touching the alveolar ridge and the main body of the tongue near the hard palate; having a primary alveolar articulation and a secondary palatal articulation.
- palliative-care — medical care focused on improving the quality of life of patients with serious illnesses, as by treating symptoms and providing emotional support.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
- participatively — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
- pavel petrovich — Paul I (def 2).
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- phenyl valerate — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 1 1 H 1 4 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring and perfumery.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- 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.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- prairie village — a city in E Kansas.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
- principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- puerto vallarta — a city in W Mexico.
- pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
- purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.