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

  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • loan investment — a loan made as an investment
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • low-level waste — waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
  • non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
  • nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
  • 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.
  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • 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.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • 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.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
  • shockwave flash — flash
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