15-letter words containing t, e, r, g, i, v
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- overimaginative — imaginative to a fault
- portative organ — capable of being carried; portable.
- 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.
- private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
- progressivistic — characteristic of a progressivist
- reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- 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
- roving reporter — a reporter who travels around, rather than staying in a fixed place
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- serve one right — to act as a servant.
- spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
- steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
- sterling silver — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- the everlasting — God
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- viral marketing — a marketing strategy that focuses on spreading information and opinions about a product or service from person to person, especially by using unconventional means such as the Internet or email: Which online social networks can help with viral marketing?
- virtual storage — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- voting precinct — one of several areas, each containing a polling place, into which a town or city is split for voting purposes