15-letter words containing o, v, e, r, s
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intervisitation — the act of visiting.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- 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.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- 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.
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- 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.
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- non-contrastive — not contrastive.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
- non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- nonconservation — A failure to conserve.
- nonconservative — Not conservative.
- nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
- nonprescriptive — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.