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15-letter words containing v, e, i, t, s

  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • 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-reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
  • 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-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
  • 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.
  • sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
  • serve one right — to act as a servant.
  • service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
  • service station — Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
  • servius tullius — Servius, Servius Tullius.
  • seven-year itch — scabies.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • 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).
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • st. kitts-nevis — a twin-island state in the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies, consisting of the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis: formerly a British colony and member of the West Indies Associated States; gained independence 1983. 104 sq. mi. (269 sq. km). Capital: Basseterre.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • steak au poivre — pepper steak (def 2).
  • 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.
  • stick-at-it-ive — stick-to-it-ive.
  • stick-to-it-ive — tenaciously resolute; persevering: Stick-to-it-ive people get ahead in life.
  • store detective — A store detective is someone who is employed by a shop to walk around the shop looking for people who are secretly stealing goods.
  • strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • substantiveness — a noun.
  • superconvenient — highly convenient
  • superinvolution — an act or instance of involving or entangling; involvement.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • 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.
  • television film — a feature-length film that is made specifically to be shown on television
  • television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
  • tennessee river — a state in the SE United States. 42,246 sq. mi. (109,415 sq. km). Capital: Nashville. Abbreviation: TN (for use with zip code), Tenn.
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the everlasting — God
  • thermosensitive — readily affected by heat or a change in temperature.
  • to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
  • touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
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