16-letter words containing n, e, r, v, y
- reverse snobbery — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
- save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
- security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
- sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
- service industry — business providing a service
- seven years' war — the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.
- severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
- state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
- supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
- valency electron — an electron in the outer shell of an atom, responsible for forming chemical bonds
- variable annuity — an annuity in which the premiums are invested chiefly in common stocks or other securities, the annuitant receiving payments based on the yield of the investments instead of in fixed amounts.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
- vinylidene resin — any synthetic resin in which the basic structure consists of the H2C:CR2 group, where R usually is a halogen
- vinylpyrrolidone — Vinylpyrrolidone is a substance used as a binder in pharmaceuticals.
- virgin territory — place never visited
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- voluntary helper — a person who aids or assists in a specified function of one's own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- voluntary sector — the part of the economy that consists of non-profit-making organizations, as opposed to the public and private sectors
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
- yeoman's service — good, useful, or workmanlike service: His trusty sword did him yeoman's service.