15-letter words containing v, o, r, s
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intervisitation — the act of visiting.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irrespective of — regardless of sth
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
- liskov, barbara — Barbara Liskov
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
- lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- 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.
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- morning service — a regular church service in the mornng
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- neoconservatism — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.