15-letter words containing n, o, e, v, i, r
- pincer movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
- 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.
- porcupine river — a river in NW Yukon Territory, Canada and NE Alaska, flowing N and W to the Yukon River. 448 miles (721 km) long.
- portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- preview monitor — (in a television studio control room) a picture monitor used for inspecting a picture source before it is switched to transmission
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- private tuition — instruction, esp that received in a small group or individually, that is arranged and paid for by an individual rather than by the state
- 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
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- receiving order — court order
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- reprivatization — the action or process of reprivatizing, or an instance thereof
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
- revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
- 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.
- 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.
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
- servo-mechanism — A servo-mechanism is a system or device that provides increased power to operate a control.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
- thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient