16-letter words containing t, y, r, e, v
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
- overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- peter stuyvesant — Peter, 1592–1672, Dutch colonial administrator in the Americas: last governor of New Netherlands 1646–64.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
- re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- relative density — specific gravity.
- relatively prime — (mathematics) Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
- relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- representatively — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
- security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
- selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
- self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
- service industry — business providing a service
- specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
- state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
- strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- supersensitivity — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
- 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
- top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
- 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.
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- virgin territory — place never visited
- visibility meter — any instrument for measuring the visual range through the atmosphere, as a transmissometer.
- vocabulary entry — (in dictionaries) a word, phrase, abbreviation, symbol, affix, name, etc., listed with its definition or explanation in alphabetical order or listed for identification after the word from which it is derived or to which it is related.
- 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
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- white-eyed vireo — a vireo, Vireo griseus, of eastern North America, having olive, yellow, and white plumage, a yellow ring around each eye, and white irises.