15-letter words containing v, t, y
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- over-complexity — the state or quality of being complex; intricacy: the complexity of urban life.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
- overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
- oversensitivity — excessively or unduly sensitive.
- participatively — 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.
- paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
- phenyl valerate — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 1 1 H 1 4 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring and perfumery.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
- private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- public lavatory — a public toilet
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- pyrrhic victory — a victory or goal achieved at too great a cost.
- quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
- reentry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- revolutionarily — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- service history — information concerning all of a car's services (ie overhauls, checks, or repairs)
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- seventy-seventh — next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- tehuacan valley — a desert valley site in Puebla, Mexico, where aridity has preserved the vegetable remains of communities from 9000 b.c. to historic times, thus documenting the transition from hunting and gathering to the largely agricultural subsistence of the full Neolithic phase (1500–900 b.c.).
- to save the day — If someone or something saves the day in a situation which seems likely to fail, they manage to make it successful.
- 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.
- transvaal daisy — a composite plant, Gerbera jamesonii, native to southern Africa, having showy, many-rayed, variously colored flower heads.
- traveller's joy — a ranunculaceous Old World climbing plant, Clematis vitalba, having white flowers and heads of feathery plumed fruits
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- 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.
- unrevolutionary — not revolutionary, progressive, or radical
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- utility vehicle — A utility vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.