15-letter words containing v, a, r, s
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- general servant — a domestic servant who performs general tasks
- girdle traverse — a climb that consists of a complete traverse of a face or crag
- give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
- give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
- 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
- graves' disease — a disease characterized by an enlarged thyroid, a rapid pulse, and increased basal metabolism due to excessive thyroid secretion; exophthalmic goiter.
- graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
- hamiltonstovare — a large strong short-haired breed of hound with a black, brown, and white coat
- hard disk drive — (storage) (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
- have a crush on — be attracted to: sb
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- haversian canal — a microscopic channel in bone, through which a blood vessel runs.
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- 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.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- 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 vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
- 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.
- intervisitation — the act of visiting.
- intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
- inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
- inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
- ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- island universe — an external galaxy.
- ivan sutherland — Ivan E. Sutherland is widely known for his pioneering contributions. His 1963 MIT PhD thesis, Sketchpad, opened the field of computer graphics. His 1966 work, with Sproull, on a head-mounted display anticipated today's virtual reality by 25 years. He co-founded Evans and Sutherland, which manufactures the most advanced computer image generators now in use. As head of Computer Science Department of Caltech he helped make integrated circuit design an acceptable field of academic study. Dr. Sutherland is on the boards of several small companies and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, the ACM and IEEE. He received the ACM's Turing Award in 1988. He is now Vice President and Fellow of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Mountain View, CA, USA.
- ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.