15-letter words containing r, e, s, v, o, i
- preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- prison governor — the senior administrator or head of a prison
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- 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.
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- projective test — any psychological test, such as the Rorschach test, in which the subject is asked to respond to vague material. It is thought that unconscious ideas are thus projected, which, when the responses are interpreted, reveal hidden aspects of the subject's personality
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- reserve officer — a noncareer commissioned officer in a military reserve unit who has served on active duty and who may be recalled to active service during an emergency.
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- reverse osmosis — the process in which pure water is produced by forcing waste or saline water through a semipermeable membrane.
- 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.
- rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- 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 history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- 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.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
- 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
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- social services — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- 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
- thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.