15-letter words containing v, e, r, y
- gravimetrically — (chemistry) Using a gravimetric method.
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- have a derry on — to have a prejudice or grudge against
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- heaviside layer — E layer.
- heavy artillery — guns and howitzers of large caliber.
- heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
- heavy-heartedly — in a heavy-hearted manner
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- 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.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- 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.
- interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
- intervisibility — the state or fact of being visible.
- introspectively — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- introspectivity — The quality of being introspective.
- 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.
- invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
- literary device — technique used in writing
- livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- orekhovo-zuyevo — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, E of Moscow.
- over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.