15-letter words containing v, i, t, r, y
- 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.
- literary device — technique used in writing
- maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
- manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
- maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- 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.
- overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
- oversensitivity — excessively or unduly sensitive.
- participatively — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- 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
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- pyrrhic victory — a victory or goal achieved at too great a cost.
- quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- total depravity — the Calvinist doctrine that humankind's entire nature, including its reason, is corrupt or sinful as a result of the Fall and that people are therefore completely dependent on God for regeneration.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.