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

  • 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.
  • in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
  • instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
  • interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
  • interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
  • 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.
  • interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
  • intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
  • interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
  • intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
  • intervisitation — the act of visiting.
  • introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
  • introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
  • inverness-shire — (until 1975) a county of NW Scotland, now part of Highland
  • inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • 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.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • jupiter pluvius — Jupiter regarded as the giver of rain
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • living quarters — accommodation
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
  • loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
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