15-letter words containing r, v
- 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.
- hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- 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.
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- 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
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- improvisational — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatorial — relating to an improvisator
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- 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.
- infraclavicular — (anatomy) Below the clavicle.
- 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.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
- interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- interval signal — a characteristic snatch of music, chimes, etc, transmitted as an identifying signal by a radio station between programme items
- intervalometers — Plural form of intervalometer.
- interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- intervisitation — the act of visiting.
- intraindividual — Occurring within an individual.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- inverness-shire — (until 1975) a county of NW Scotland, now part of Highland