14-letter words containing r, e, v
- impressiveness — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.
- improvisatrice — Female improvisatore.
- improvvisatore — an improvisator, especially a person who extemporizes verse.
- in one's favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- inappreciative — not appreciative; lacking in appreciation.
- inapprehensive — not apprehensive (often followed by of).
- indiscoverable — not discoverable.
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- ingressiveness — Quality of being ingressive.
- inland revenue — UK tax collection agency
- integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
- intensive care — the use of specialized equipment and personnel for continuous monitoring and care of the critically ill.
- inter-division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interbehaviour — interaction between multiple individuals
- interconverted — Simple past tense and past participle of interconvert.
- interoperative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- interpretative — interpretive.
- interpretively — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- interpretivism — Antipositivism.
- interrogatives — Plural form of interrogative.
- interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
- intervalometer — an automatic device for operating the shutter of a camera at regular intervals, as in making aerial photographs.
- intervariation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
- interventional — the act or fact of intervening.
- intervertebral — situated between the vertebrae.
- into overdrive — into a state of intense activity
- intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
- intraoperative — Happening during surgery. Literally, within surgery.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- invariableness — The state of being invariable; constancy of state, condition, or quality; immutability; unchangeableness.
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- inverse cosine — arc cosine.
- inverted chord — a chord in which the notes are transposed such that the root, originally in the bass, is placed in an upper part.
- inverted comma — quotation mark.
- inverted pleat — a reverse box pleat, having the flat fold turned in.
- irregular verb — verb with non-standard past tense
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
- irreplevisable — not replevisable; not capable of being replevied.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- italian clover — crimson clover.
- jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- knotted clover — a British wildflower, Trifolium striatum, an annual clover with pale pink flowers
- l-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall after which values remain low for a long period
- labor movement — labor unions collectively: The labor movement supported the bill.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.