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

  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • misvocalization — an incorrect or bad vocalization
  • molecular sieve — a compound with molecule-size pores, as some sodium aluminum silicates, that chemically locks molecules in them: used in purification and separation processes.
  • monovision lens — Ophthalmology. one of a pair of contact lenses that adjust one eye for farsightedness and the other for nearsightedness, used as an alternative to bifocal lenses.
  • morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
  • mount of olives — a hill to the east of Jerusalem: in New Testament times the village Bethany (Mark 11:11) was on its eastern slope and Gethsemane on its western one
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multidivisional — Of or pertaining to more than one division.
  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • 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.
  • nova scotia lox — a kind of brine-cured salmon, having either a salt cure (Scandinavian lox) or a sugar cure (Nova Scotia lox) often eaten with cream cheese on a bagel.
  • 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.
  • oval of cassini — the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.
  • 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.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
  • pseudo-medieval — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or in the style of the Middle Ages: medieval architecture. Compare Middle Ages.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
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