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.