15-letter words containing v, r, i, t
- to give rise to — If something gives rise to an event or situation, it causes that event or situation to happen.
- 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.
- tracking device — an electronic security device which allows you to monitor the location of a person or object, esp a vehicle
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- transverse axis — the axis of a hyperbola that passes through the two foci.
- travel sickness — nausea caused by motion
- traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
- travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
- tricuspid valve — the valve, consisting of three triangular flaps of tissue between the right auricle and ventricle of the heart, that keeps blood from flowing back into the auricle.
- trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
- ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- unauthoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- uncontroversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- 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.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unparticipative — 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.
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- upsetting lever — the horizontal distance between the center of gravity, acting downward, and the center of buoyancy, acting upward, when they are so placed as to form a couple (upsetting couple) tending to capsize the boat.
- vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
- variant reading — an alternative interpretation of a word in a text to the one generally accepted
- varicocelectomy — the surgical removal or ligation of varicose veins in the scrotal sac.
- vascular tissue — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
- vascularization — (of a tissue or embryo) to develop or extend blood vessels or other fluid-bearing vessels or ducts; become vascular.
- vasoconstrictor — a nerve or drug that causes vasoconstriction.
- vector addition — the process of finding one vector that is equivalent to the result of the successive application of two or more given vectors.
- vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- venture capital — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
- venus hairstone — a variety of rutilated quartz, used as a gemstone.
- vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
- vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
- vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- vertical circle — a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the zenith.
- vespertilionine — of or relating to the bats of the subfamily Vespertilioninae, common in temperate regions and including most familiar species.