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15-letter words containing s, a, v, i, e

  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • 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.
  • panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
  • paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • positive caster — a person or thing that casts.
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
  • quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • quasi-sovereign — a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • 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.
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • 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 negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • save one's skin — to avoid harm or injury; esp., to escape death
  • scanning device — any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
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