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

  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • 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.
  • pavement artist — sidewalk artist.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • 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.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • 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
  • provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
  • 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
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • 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.
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • 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.
  • reverse transom — a surface forming the stern of a vessel, canted forwards at the upper side
  • 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
  • rimsky-korsakov — Nicolai Andreevich [nyi-kuh-lahy uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kəˈlaɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1844–1908, Russian composer.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • saturated vapor — a vapor whose temperature and pressure are such that any compression of its volume at constant temperature causes it to condense to liquid at a rate sufficient to maintain a constant pressure.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
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