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15-letter words containing r, e, v, n, u

  • interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • island universe — an external galaxy.
  • ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • mount vancouver — a mountain on the border between Canada and Alaska, in the St Elias Mountains. Height: 4785 m (15 700 ft)
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • natural virtues — (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
  • neurodepressive — (of a drug) depressing nerve-cell function.
  • nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
  • non-suppurative — suppurating; characterized by suppuration.
  • nonconstructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
  • north vancouver — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • open university — higher education by correspondence
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • over-accentuate — to give emphasis or prominence to.
  • over-enthusiasm — absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit; lively interest: He shows marked enthusiasm for his studies.
  • over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • overcommunicate — to communicate excessively
  • overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
  • overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • 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
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • 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.
  • post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • put one over on — to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
  • quartz movement — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
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