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14-letter words containing v, r, y

  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
  • rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
  • rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
  • 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.
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
  • the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
  • 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.
  • turkey vulture — a blackish-brown vulture, Cathartes aura, from the southern U.S. to South America, having a bare, wrinkled, red head and neck.
  • ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
  • undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unproductivity — the quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create, enhance, or bring forth goods and services: The productivity of the group's effort surprised everyone.
  • unresponsively — in an unresponsive manner
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
  • van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
  • vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
  • 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.
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