15-letter words containing s, a, r, v, o
- preservationism — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- preservationist — a person who advocates or promotes preservation, especially of wildlife, natural areas, or historical places.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- 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.
- reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
- 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.
- rimsky-korsakov — Nicolai Andreevich [nyi-kuh-lahy uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kəˈlaɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1844–1908, Russian composer.
- saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
- self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
- 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.
- shoshone cavern — a large cave in NW Wyoming: a national monument.
- 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.
- sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
- 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)
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- survival course — a course that teaches people how to survive in the wild and in other dangerous environments
- traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- vapour pressure — the pressure exerted by a vapour. The saturated vapour pressure is that exerted by a vapour in equilibrium with its solid or liquid phase at a particular temperature
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasoconstrictor — a nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.