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15-letter words containing r, o, v, i

  • dorsiventrality — The quality of being dorsiventral.
  • dorsoventrality — Zoology. pertaining to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the body; extending from the dorsal to the ventral side: the dorsoventral axis.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • east providence — a town in NE Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • egyptian clover — a Mediterranean clover, Trifolium alexandrinum, grown as a forage crop and to improve the soil in the southwestern US and the Nile valley
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • 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.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fee-for-service — pertaining to the charging of fees for specific services rendered in health care, as distinguished from participating in a prepaid medical practice: fee-for-service medicine.
  • fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • furniture mover — person: removal worker
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
  • governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
  • governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
  • governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
  • governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
  • graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
  • gravitationally — As a result of the force of gravity.
  • gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • have words with — to argue angrily with
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
  • heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
  • improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
  • improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
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