15-letter words containing i, r, e, v, n
- fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
- foreign service — a division of the U.S. Department of State or of a foreign office that maintains diplomatic and consular posts and personnel in other countries.
- fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
- free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
- gardening leave — If someone who leaves their job is given gardening leave, they continue to receive their salary and in return they agree not to work for anyone else for a period of time.
- give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
- governing class — the social class that holds the power in a country
- governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
- governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
- governmentality — (sociology) The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced.
- governmentalize — (US) To bring a private entity under government control; to nationalize.
- gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
- graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- 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.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
- in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- interclavicular — a median membrane bone developed between the collarbones, or in front of the breastbone, in many vertebrates.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- interindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- interprovincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.