15-letter words containing v, e, r, d, t
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- overopinionated — too opinionated
- overrepresented — represented disproportionately or in too large a number (corresponding to the number in the population, etc)
- oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
- 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-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- 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
- 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
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- 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.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
- seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
- sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
- starvation diet — insufficient food to stay alive
- 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)
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- 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.
- 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.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- 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.
- vested interest — a special interest in an existing system, arrangement, or institution for particular personal reasons.
- volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- vortex shedding — the process by which vortices formed continuously by the aerodynamic conditions associated with a solid body in a gas or air stream are carried downstream by the flow in the form of a vortex street
- well-advertised — 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.