16-letter words containing v, e, l
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
- governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
- governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
- granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
- great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
- green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
- have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
- have a talk with — discuss
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
- hoek van holland — Hook of Holland.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hypervariability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
- in living memory — If you say that something is, for example, the best, worst, or first thing of its kind in living memory, you are emphasizing that it is the only thing of that kind that people can remember.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- indivisibilities — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- internal revenue — the revenue of a government from any domestic source, usually considered to be any source other than customs.
- interpretatively — In an interpretative manner.
- interventionally — In terms of, or by means of, intervention.
- interventricular — (anatomy) Located between the ventricles of the heart.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- intraventricular — (medicine) In a ventricle.
- inverted nipples — nipples which do not project from the breast but are retracted
- invisible assets — assets that are not physical, such as services or good will