15-letter words containing b, i, v, a
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- 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.
- might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- negative number — a number that is less than 0
- neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
- non-substantive — a noun.
- nonavailability — A lack of availability.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- pareira (brava) — the stem of a South American curare plant
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- 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
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
- sauvignon blanc — a white grape grown primarily in France and California.
- saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
- sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- subcivilization — a division of a civilization
- subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
- subconjunctival — the mucous membrane that lines the exposed portion of the eyeball and inner surface of the eyelids.
- substantiveness — a noun.
- subvocalization — the act or process of producing subvocal speech
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
- unavailableness — the state of being useless or ineffectual
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- us savings bond — A US Savings bond is a long-term bond issued by the US government that is considered low-risk.
- variable region — a configuration in the upper branches of the Y of an antibody molecule, unique in each antibody type, that binds with the determinant of a specific antigen.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- voltaic battery — battery (def 1a).
- vulnerabilities — capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.