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15-letter words containing n, a, r, v

  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
  • engraving plate — a metal, usually steel, plate on which an image is engraved in order to be reproduced
  • environmentally — In a manner affecting one's environment.
  • evening prayers — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • everlastingness — The state or quality of being everlasting.
  • ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
  • exchange server — Microsoft Exchange
  • experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
  • extravagantness — The quality of being extravagant.
  • flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • floral envelope — the calyx and corolla of a flower.
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • 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.
  • general average — Insurance. any damage or loss to a ship or its cargo voluntarily sustained, as freight jettisoned in a storm, by all parties to a voyage (distinguished from particular average). Abbreviation: G.A.
  • general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
  • geneva protocol — the agreement in 1925 to ban the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases in war. It does not ban the development or manufacture of such gases
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • 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.
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • 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
  • gravitationally — As a result of the force of gravity.
  • gravity anomaly — a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
  • green vegetable — a vegetable having green edible parts, as lettuce or broccoli.
  • hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
  • have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
  • have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
  • have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
  • 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.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
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