15-Letter Words Containing V

""CONSERVATIVE Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.""

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

CONVENTIONAL Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Noncreativity

Noncultivation

Nondevelopment

Nonequivalence

EXPLOITATIVE

Independent, as some agencies

No Verne? No Tintin comic? No meddling!

Abstinence on a national scale

Noninvolvement

Nonobjectivism

Nonobjectivist

Plural of gerund noun

Plural or third person singular

QUANTITATIVE Relating to quantity.

""RELATIVISTIC of, pertaining to, or in conformity with the theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity.theory of relativity; as, the relativistic increase of mass with velocity.""

""REPRODUCTIVE Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction.""

Plural or third person singular

NORMATIVENESS normative

Novemdecillion

OBJECTIVENESS Objectivity.

OBLIVIOUSNESS oblivious

Observability

Observational

OBSESSIVENESS obsessive

Obstructive

OBTRUSIVENESS obtrusive

OFFENSIVENESS offensive

OPERATIVENESS operative

Present participle or gerund

Inflected form of ACCENTUATED Inflected form of ACCENTUATE To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Overaccentuate

""ACHIEVEMENT The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object. as, the achievement of his object.""

Overadjustment

ADVERTISING a communication publicly promoting some product or service.

""APPLICATION The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.""

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Overarticulate

Overassessment

Too highly valued, as a business

Estimates the value of property too highly

""CENTRALIZED drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized.""

Overcentralize

Overclassify

Overcommitment

COMMUNICATE To share in common; to participate in.

More than made up (for)

Tried too hard, in a way

Tries too hard to make up for a weakness

Rewards unduly

Acts excessively

Overcompliance

Inflected form of COMPLICATED Inflected form of COMPLICATE Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

Overcomplicate

Overcompress

Overconfidence

With too much aplomb

Overconstruct

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Lorax'

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax"

CONTROLLING control

CULTIVATION The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

Overdecoration

Overdependence

Photographer's goof

Sierra Club concern

Do men ever love PT, working out, bodybuilding (wordplay)

Overdiscount

Overdiversity

Overdocument

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZING Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

EAGERNESSES eagerness

On English research site, speaking at length and adding too much detail

ELABORATION The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Overembellish

Overembellish

Attaching too much weight to

Stressing excessively

Finished the map off, losing time measuring and marking too much

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Overengineer

Showed too much of a good time

Overenthusiasm

Unduly high appraisals

Unrealistic value assessments

Overevaluation

EXAGGERATED Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Overexaggerate

EXPECTATION The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Overextraction

""EXTRAVAGANT Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.""

Yet more contempt generated by such presumption (wordplay)

""Inflected form of FERTILIZING Inflected form of FERTILIZE To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.""

""GENERALIZED Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. as, a generalized type.""

Has nonspecific opinions, e.g

Has nonspecific opinions, for example

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

""HOMOGENIZED formed by blending unlike elements, especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance.""

Overhomogenize

Overidentify

A little too clever

Too fanciful

Uncovered single ruinous excesses

Banquet perils

Overingenuity

Overintensity

Overinvestment

Overlengthen

Overmedication

OPINIONATED Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion.

ORCHESTRATE to write an orchestra score for; -- of a musical composition.

Overornament

Overpersuasion

Overpopulation

PRESCRIBING

Surpluses

PROGRAMMING program

Overproportion

PROTECTIONS protection

Overrefinement

Overregulation

REPRESENTED represent

Oversaturation

""SENSITIVITY The quality or state of being sensitive; used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.""

Making it seem easy

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Overspecialize

""Inflected form of SPECULATING Inflected form of SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

SPECULATION The act of speculating.

Overstability

""Inflected form of STIMULATING Inflected form of STIMULATE To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory. as, to stimulate one by the hope of reward, or by the prospect of glory.""

""STIMULATION The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.""

SUBSCRIBING

SWEETNESSES sweetness

Exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.

Overwithhold

Overzealous

Ovoviviparous

Paramyxovirus

PERVASIVENESS pervasive

PERVERTEDNESS perverted

PHOSPHORYLATE

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

Photoengraving

PLAINTIVENESS plaintive

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-ure)

Postoperative

Noun (-tion)

Plural noun (-tions)

Predevelopment

Prefigurative

Preinterview

Plural (-ists)

Green Park is, in part

PRIMITIVENESS The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style

Progressive

PROGRESSIVIST

Progressivity

Prohibitive

PROMOTIVENESS promotive

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded traits

PROVINCIALIZE To render provincial.

Ability to stimulate

PURPOSIVENESS purposive

Radioactivity

Protection against the harmful effects of radiation.

RECEPTIVENESS The quality of being receptive.

RECESSIVENESS recessive

RECLUSIVENESS reclusive

CURSIVENESSES cursiveness

REDUCTIVENESS reductive

Reduplicative

REFLEXIVENESS reflexive

INVESTIGATING the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

""INVESTIGATION The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist. as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.""

Reinvigoration

Rejuvenescence

Remonstrative

MOVABLENESSES movableness

They should flog politicians (wordplay)

They are recycled every two years

Javits, Vinson, F. D. R. Jr., etc.

PRIVATIZATION

REPULSIVENESS repulsive

Reservationist

RESISTIVENESS resistive

Restrictive

RETENTIVENESS The quality of being retentive.

Retroactivity

In a retrogressive manner.

Adjective (-ive)

In a backward-looking manner

With nostalgia

'Tainted love' is pretty clever with hindsight

Revalorization

Reversibility

VISUALIZATION

Revitalization

Revivification

Radicals sign, after rising

People fighting for change turn on sign

People seeking a change

Revolutionary

Radically changing development in revolt

Revolutionizer

""REVOLUTIONIZE To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. as, to revolutionize a government.""

SECLUSIVENESS seclusive

SECRETIVENESS The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

SEDUCTIVENESS seductive

SELECTIVENESS selective

SENSITIVENESS sensitive

Seroconversion

Utility

Servomechanism

SILVERSMITHING silversmith