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15-letter words containing t, a, l, v, e, r

  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • 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
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • 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.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • 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.
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • the everlasting — God
  • total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
  • travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
  • travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
  • traveler's-tree — a bananalike tree, Ravenala madagascariensis, of Madagascar, having large leaves, the petioles of which contain a clear, watery sap.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
  • trochlear nerve — either one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves, consisting of motor fibers that innervate the superior oblique muscle of the upper part of the eyeball.
  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • 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.
  • universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
  • unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
  • vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vascular tissue — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • venture capital — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • vertebral canal — spinal canal.
  • vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • vertical circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the zenith.
  • victor emmanuel — 1869–1947, king of Italy 1900–46.
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
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