16-letter words containing v, e, r, n, a
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- 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).
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
- have been around — be experienced
- have no time for — not tolerate
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- haversian system — a Haversian canal and the series of concentric bony plates surrounding it.
- hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
- heavier-than-air — (of an aircraft) weighing more than the air that it displaces, hence having to obtain lift by aerodynamic means.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- huevos rancheros — a Latin American dish of eggs, usually fried or poached, topped with a spicy tomato sauce and sometimes served on a fried corn tortilla with the addition of vegetables and cheese.
- hyperinnervation — the act of innervating; state of being innervated.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- in--one-s--favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- internal revenue — the revenue of a government from any domestic source, usually considered to be any source other than customs.
- interpenetrative — (mathematics, physics) Mutually penetrative (overlapping each other in space).
- 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.
- intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
- intraventricular — (medicine) In a ventricle.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- invulnerableness — The quality of being invulnerable.
- irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
- italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers