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15-letter words containing v, e, s, l

  • reverse english — Also called reverse side. Billiards. a spinning motion imparted to a cue ball in such a manner as to prevent it from moving in a certain direction. Compare running English.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • russell's viper — a large venomous snake, Vipera russelli, common in India and southeastern Asia, having three rows of large, black-edged brown spots on a light-brown body.
  • sales executive — a professional responsible for increasing and developing a company's sales
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • self-expressive — the expression or assertion of one's own personality, as in conversation, behavior, poetry, or painting.
  • self-government — control of the government of a state, community, or other body by its own members; democratic government.
  • 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-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • 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-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
  • seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
  • sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
  • service ceiling — the height above sea level, measured under standard conditions, at which the rate of climb of an aircraft has fallen to a specified amount
  • servius tullius — Servius, Servius Tullius.
  • shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • shuttle service — transport going back and forth
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • 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.
  • silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
  • simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
  • sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • sled cultivator — go-devil (def 5).
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • slow-wave sleep — a recurrent period of deep sleep, typically totaling five or six hours a night, distinguished by the presence of slow brain waves and by very little dreaming.
  • 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.
  • social services — organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • specific volume — volume per unit mass; the reciprocal of density.
  • speller-divider — a reference book that lists words in alphabetical order to show spelling and syllabification.
  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
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