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15-letter words containing v, e, n, l, a

  • overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
  • 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.
  • overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
  • overzealousness — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
  • parallel-veined — having closely spaced longitudinal veins, as the leaves of most monocotyledonous plants.
  • paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
  • penal servitude — imprisonment together with hard labor.
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • phenyl valerate — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 1 1 H 1 4 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring and perfumery.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • postdevaluation — the period following the devaluation of a currency
  • principal value — a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
  • quasi-universal — of, relating to, or characteristic of all or the whole: universal experience.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • revisualization — the act of visualizing or picturing something again
  • revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • revolving stage — a circular platform divided into segments enabling multiple theater sets to be put in place in advance and in turn rotated into view of the audience.
  • richard neville — Earl of (Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury"the Kingmaker") 1428–71, English military leader and statesman.
  • self-evaluation — an act or instance of evaluating or appraising.
  • self-initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
  • self-motivation — initiative to undertake or continue a task or activity without another's prodding or supervision.
  • self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • semilunar valve — either of two valves, one in the aorta and one in the pulmonary artery, consisting of a set of three crescent-shaped flaps of tissue and serving to prevent blood from flowing back into the heart after contraction.
  • seminal vesicle — either of two small saclike glands, located on each side of the bladder in males, that add nutrient fluid to semen during ejaculation.
  • sensitive plant — Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched.
  • shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • silver standard — a monetary standard or system using silver of specified weight and fineness to define the basic unit of currency.
  • simple interval — an interval of an octave or less.
  • sinclair, clive — Clive Sinclair
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • sons and lovers — a novel (1913) by D. H. Lawrence.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
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