15-letter words containing v, e, l, a, s
- electric shaver — razor powered by electricity
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- evangelicalness — the state or quality of being evangelical
- everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
- Évian-les-bains — a resort and spa town in E France, on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne; noted for its bottled mineral waters. Pop: 8064 (2006)
- eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
- federal reserve — In the United States, the Federal Reserve is the central banking system, which is responsible for setting policy on monetary matters such as money supply and interest rates.
- fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- glanville-hicks — Peggy, 1912–1990, U.S. composer and music critic, born in Australia.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
- governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- in-visible hand — (in the economics of Adam Smith) an unseen force or mechanism that guides individuals to unwittingly benefit society through the pursuit of their private interests.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- island universe — an external galaxy.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- las vegas night — an evening of casino-style gambling, usually sponsored by a charitable, religious, or other fund-raising organization.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- leaving present — a present given to a person when they leave a job, place etc
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- levelheadedness — The property of being levelheaded, stable, not overly swayed by passion.