15-letter words containing a, d, v, e, r
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- loudspeaker van — a motor vehicle carrying a public address system
- maidenhair-vine — wire vine.
- media converter — (networking) A component used in Ethernet, although it is not part of the IEEE standard. The IEEE standard states that all segments must be linked with repeaters. Media converters were developed as a simpler, cheaper alternative to repeaters. However, in the 1990s the cost difference between the two is negligible.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
- nevado del ruiz — a volcano in W central Colombia, in the Andes: eruption 1985. 17,720 feet (5401 meters).
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
- non-adversarial — a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
- non-declarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- nondegenerative — tending to degenerate.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- ortega saavedra — (José) Daniel [haw-se dah-nyel] /hɔˈsɛ dɑˈnyɛl/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.
- over one's head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- 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-cultivated — to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
- overcapitalized — Simple past tense and past participle of overcapitalize.
- overcompensated — to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- 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.
- overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
- overhead locker — a locker situated above someone's seat for storing luggage, etc
- 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.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
- penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
- power save mode — (architecture) A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
- pre-advertising — 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.
- 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 pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- 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
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- readvertisement — the act or process of advertising something again
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
- 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.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.