15-letter words containing v, e, s, l
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- non-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- nonrelativistic — not concerned with or involving the theory of relativity
- nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- over-capitalise — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
- over-scrupulous — excessively scrupulous.
- over-solicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
- overcapitalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcapitalize.
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
- polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
- positive column — the luminous region between the Faraday dark space and the anode glow in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- post-revolution — an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- pre-legislative — having the function of making laws: a legislative body.
- pressure vessel — a vessel designed for containing substances, reactions, etc, at pressures above atmospheric pressure
- printer's devil — devil (def 5).
- private soldier — A private soldier is a soldier of the lowest rank in an army or the marines.
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
- 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.
- reckless driver — sb who drives dangerously
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- relieve oneself — to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.