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15-letter words containing n, o, s, v, e

  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
  • 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.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
  • relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
  • 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
  • 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
  • save one's neck — to escape from a difficult or dangerous situation
  • save one's skin — to avoid harm or injury; esp., to escape death
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • self-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
  • 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.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • 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.
  • shoshone cavern — a large cave in NW Wyoming: a national monument.
  • shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • 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.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
  • television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
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