14-letter words containing v, r, y
- divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
- dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- each and every — all
- effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
- electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
- evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
- every man jack — everyone without exception
- every so often — now and again
- everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
- evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
- five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
- formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
- friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
- galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- governing body — board, regulatory authority
- governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
- graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
- graveyard stew — milk toast.
- gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
- group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
- heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
- hypersensitive — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- interpretively — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
- intransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being intransitive.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.