15-letter words containing v, e, r, d, i, c
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- literary device — technique used in writing
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- media converter — (networking) A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- non-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- nonreproductive — Not able to reproduce; sterile.
- over-confidence — too confident.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- quickie divorce — the formal ending of a marriage by law, carried out in a faster manner than usual, esp online
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radioprotective — giving protection against the effects of radiation
- receiving order — court order
- 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.
- 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.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- 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.
- third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- 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.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- video recording — sth filmed on videotape
- videoconference — a teleconference conducted via television equipment.
- vreni schneider — Vreni [vren-ee] /ˈvrɛn i/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Swiss Alpine ski racer.