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15-letter words containing l, u, v, i

  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
  • qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • richelieu river — Armand Jean du Plessis [ar-mahn zhahn dy ple-see] /arˈmɑ̃ ʒɑ̃ dü plɛˈsi/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1585–1642, French cardinal and statesman.
  • riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • russell's viper — a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body.
  • s'il vous plait — if you please; please
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
  • servius tullius — Servius, Servius Tullius.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
  • subcivilization — a division of a civilization
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • 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
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
  • transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
  • trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
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