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15-letter words containing l, o, v, a, s, t

  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
  • nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
  • overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
  • 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.
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
  • provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • 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.
  • s'il vous plait — if you please; please
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
  • subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
  • subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
  • traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
  • twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
  • universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
  • vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.
  • vicar apostolic — Roman Catholic Church. a titular bishop serving either in a district where no episcopal see has been established, or in one where the succession of bishops has been interrupted.
  • victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
  • violinistically — in a violinistic manner
  • 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.
  • vitreous silica — silica glass
  • volunteer state — Tennessee (used as a nickname).
  • voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
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