15-letter words containing v, e, t, o, d
- overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
- overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
- overentertained — entertained to excess
- overexaggerated — Simple past tense and past participle of overexaggerate.
- 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.
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- pointing device — an input device, as a mouse, stylus, or joystick, used to control movement of a cursor or pointer.
- postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
- postdivestiture — taking place after divestiture
- pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- 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
- reverend mother — a title of respect or form of address for the Mother Superior of a convent
- 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.
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- 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)
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- to have it made — If you say that someone has it made or has got it made, you mean that they are certain to be rich or successful.
- to save the day — If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful.
- 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.
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- venetian window — Palladian window.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- viscosity index — an arbitrary scale for lubricating oils that indicates the extent of variation in viscosity with variation of temperature.
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- 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.
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- 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