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

  • danse du ventre — belly dance
  • degree of curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • demisemiquavers — Plural form of demisemiquaver.
  • destructiveness — tending to destroy; causing destruction or much damage (often followed by of or to): a very destructive windstorm.
  • divide and rule — You use divide and rule to refer to a policy which is intended to keep someone in a position of power by causing disagreements between people who might otherwise unite against them.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • frequency curve — a curve representing the frequency with which a variable assumes its values.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • furniture mover — person: removal worker
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • ground observer — a person stationed in a position on the ground to watch, follow, and report on flights of aircraft, especially of enemy aircraft.
  • guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
  • interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
  • interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • 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
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • make-up remover — a substance that you use to remove make-up from your face
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
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