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16-letter words containing v, o, y

  • monotransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being monotransitive.
  • new haven colony — a settlement founded in 1638 by John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton at Quinnipiac (now New Haven, Conn.).
  • non-availability — suitable or ready for use; of use or service; at hand: I used whatever tools were available.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
  • nondestructively — In a nondestructive manner; without causing destruction.
  • observationality — The property of being observational.
  • optical activity — the ability of a substance to rotate the plane of polarization of plane-polarized light.
  • orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • overhead railway — elevated railroad.
  • ovshinsky effect — an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage.
  • photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
  • phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
  • polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
  • polyvinyl formal — a colorless, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal produced from partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate and formaldehyde, used chiefly in the manufacture of lacquers.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
  • recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
  • reverse snobbery — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
  • save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • sensory overload — being overwhelmed by sights, sounds, etc.
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • surveyor's level — level (def 8a).
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • to pay dividends — If something pays dividends, it brings advantages at a later date.
  • top drive system — A top drive system is a system which includes a motor that turns the drill string, used instead of the kelly.
  • treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
  • unconventionally — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • valency electron — an electron in the outer shell of an atom, responsible for forming chemical bonds
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
  • vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
  • vinylpyrrolidone — Vinylpyrrolidone is a substance used as a binder in pharmaceuticals.
  • virgin territory — place never visited
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