15-letter words containing v, a, n, e, s, i
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- 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.
- 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
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- 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.
- 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.
- procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- 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.
- 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.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- representatives — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- 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
- 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.
- self-initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
- self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
- self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
- self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
- semi-vegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
- semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
- seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
- sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
- 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.
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
- 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.
- sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus