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15-letter words containing v, d, l

  • 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.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
  • salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
  • silver chloride — a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • 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 division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • speller-divider — a reference book that lists words in alphabetical order to show spelling and syllabification.
  • superindividual — greater than the individual
  • surrender value — cash value.
  • tasmanian devil — a small, predacious marsupial, Sarcophilus harrisii, of Tasmania, having a black coat with white patches: its dwindling population is now confined to isolated areas.
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the living dead — dead people that have been brought back to life by a supernatural force
  • third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
  • 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.
  • transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
  • 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.
  • u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
  • unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
  • vaginal dryness — abnormal dryness of the vagina, caused by lack of natural lubrication
  • valentine's day — February 14, observed in honor of St. Valentine as a day for the exchange of valentines and other tokens of affection.
  • value-added tax — an excise tax based on the value added to a product at each stage of production or distribution: value added is arrived at by subtracting from the total value of the product at the end of each production or distibution stage the value of the goods bought at its inception. Abbreviation: VAT.
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • vegetable salad — any salad consisting of vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, beans, etc, not usually included in a green salad
  • venetian dentil — (on an archivolt or molding) one of a series of small rectangular blocks having chamfers at alternate edges.
  • venus-s--girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
  • victoria island — an island off the coast of N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. 80,340 sq. mi. (208,081 sq. km).
  • villeda morales — Ramón [rah-mawn] /rɑˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), 1909?–71, Honduran diplomat and statesman: president 1957–63.
  • vincent de paul — Saint, 1576–1660, French Roman Catholic priest noted for his work to aid the poor.
  • visayan islands — a group of seven large and several hundred small islands in the central Philippines. Chief islands: Negros and Panay. Pop: 15 528 346 (2000). Area: about 61 000 sq km (23 535 sq miles)
  • volcano islands — a group of three volcanic islands in the W Pacific, about 1100 km (700 miles) south of Japan: the largest is Iwo Jima, taken by US forces in 1945 and returned to Japan in 1968. Area: about 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
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