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14-letter words containing v, r, y, s

  • overnight stay — in hospital or hotel
  • policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
  • pre-university — 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.
  • prescriptively — that prescribes; giving directions or injunctions: a prescriptive letter from an anxious father.
  • provisionality — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • quaquaversally — in a quaquaversal manner
  • recovery stock — a security that has fallen in price but is believed to have the ability to recover
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
  • salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • seismic survey — A seismic survey is a method of investigating underground properties and rock patterns using induced shock wave reflections.
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
  • shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
  • slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
  • solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
  • superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
  • transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
  • transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
  • varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
  • varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
  • vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
  • venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
  • vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
  • vitrescibility — the ability to be vitrified
  • voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
  • worms eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
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