15-letter words containing v, e, r, b
- imperviableness — the state of being imperviable
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
- labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
- leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
- lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
- medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
- mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
- negative number — a number that is less than 0
- neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
- never look back — to become increasingly successful
- non-traversable — to pass or move over, along, or through.
- objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
- observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- oldenbarneveldt — Johan van. 1547–1619, Dutch statesman, regarded as a founder of Dutch independence; the leading figure (from 1586) in the United Provinces of the Netherlands: executed by Maurice of Nassau
- over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
- overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- pareira (brava) — the stem of a South American curare plant
- peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
- random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
- recoverableness — the ability to be recovered or chance of being able to recover
- retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
- river blindness — onchocerciasis.
- riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
- self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- sentence adverb — an adverb modifying or commenting upon the content of a sentence as a whole or upon the conditions under which it is uttered, as frankly in Frankly, he can't be trusted.
- slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
- sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- subcontraoctave — the octave below the contraoctave, which is three octaves below the middle C octave on a standard keyboard
- svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
- throw overboard — to reject or abandon
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc