15-letter words containing v, i, d, e, o
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- over-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.
- over-confidence — too confident.
- over-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- over-engineered — unnecessarily complicated
- over-privileged — having too many advantages or opportunities compared to others.
- 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.
- overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account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
- overexpenditure — the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
- overopinionated — too opinionated
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- photoconductive — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- 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
- povidone-iodine — a complex of iodine and polyvinylpyrrolidone that has broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity: used as an antiseptic.
- pre-deprivation — the act of depriving.
- primo de rivera — Miguel [mee-gel] /miˈgɛl/ (Show IPA), Marqués de Estella [mahr-kes th e es-te-lyah] /mɑrˈkɛs ðɛ ɛsˈtɛ lyɑ/ (Show IPA), (Miguel Prima de Rivera y Orbaneja) 1870–1930, Spanish general and political leader: dictator of Spain 1923–29.
- 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
- pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
- 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
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- receiving order — court order
- revised version — a recension of the Authorized Version, prepared by British and American scholars, the Old Testament being published in 1885, and the New Testament in 1881.
- riviere-du-loup — a city in SE Quebec, in E Canada, on the St. Lawrence.
- second division — the half of a league comprising the teams having the poorest records at a particular time.
- semi-conductive — Semi-conductive describes a component which conducts electricity less well than a good conductor but better than an insulator.
- shield of david — a hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- 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
- simple division — a type of division to find out how many times the smaller number is contained in the larger one
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.