15-letter words containing v, e, i, t, s
- 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.
- give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
- governmentalism — the trend toward expansion of the government's role, range of activities, or power.
- governmentalist — one who promotes the philosophy of governmentalism
- 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
- have it so good — to have so many benefits, esp material benefits
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- 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
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- individualities — Plural form of individuality.
- ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- inevitabilities — Plural form of inevitability.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- initiative test — a test to see how resourceful someone is and their ability to decide what to do and when to do it
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- inquisitiveness — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insensitiveness — Quality of being insensitive.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interdivisional — existing or occurring between divisions, esp the divisions of an organization
- 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.
- 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.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- intussusceptive — Relating to intussusception.
- 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.
- investigational — Of, or relating to investigating, or to an investigation.
- investment bank — a financial institution that deals chiefly in the underwriting of new securities.
- investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
- involuntariness — The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.