11-letter words containing v, y, a
- conservancy — Conservancy is used in the names of organizations that work to preserve and protect the environment.
- contrayerva — the root of any of several tropical American moraceous plants of the genus Dorstenia, esp D. contrayerva, used as a stimulant and tonic
- conversancy — The condition of being conversant.
- conveyanced — Simple past tense and past participle of conveyance.
- conveyancer — a person engaged in conveyancing.
- conveyances — Plural form of conveyance.
- convivially — friendly; agreeable: a convivial atmosphere.
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- dandy fever — (in the West Indies) dengue.
- deliveryman — a man whose job is to deliver a product
- demy octavo — a book size, 81⁄2 by 51⁄2 inches
- depravingly — in a depraving manner
- divisionary — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- divulgatory — to make publicly known; publish.
- dobby weave — a weave with small, geometric patterns
- drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- easy virtue — loose morals; sexual promiscuity
- emulatively — So as to emulate.
- enviability — The state or condition of being enviable.
- equivalency — (countable) An equivalent thing.
- equivocally — With ambiguity.
- eventuality — A possible event or outcome.
- evidentiary — (legal) Of or pertaining to evidence.
- eviternally — in an eviternal manner; eternally
- evocatively — In an evocative manner.
- expansively — In an expansive manner.
- expansivity — The amount a material expands or contracts per unit length due to a one-degree change in temperature.
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- french navy — a dark dull navy blue
- give way to — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- gravity dam — a dam resisting the pressure of impounded water through its own weight.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gravy train — a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.
- hairy vetch — a plant, Vicia villosa, of the legume family, native to Eurasia, having hairy stems and violet and white flowers, widely grown as forage and as a cover crop.
- half volley — tennis: returning ball after it bounces
- half-volley — (in tennis, racquets, etc.) a stroke in which the ball is hit the moment it bounces from the ground.
- happy event — the birth of a child
- hardly ever — rarely
- harvest fly — cicada
- heavy chain — a type of polypeptide chain present in an immunoglobulin molecule
- heavy cream — thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.
- heavy crude — a type of crude oil that does not flow easily and has greater viscosity and specific density than other types of crude
- heavy going — a soft and muddy surface to race on
- heavy metal — big iron
- heavy water — water in which hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium, used chiefly as a coolant in nuclear reactors.
- heavy-laden — carrying a heavy load; heavily laden: a heavy-laden cart.
- heavyweight — heavy in weight.
- hyattsville — a city in central Maryland.
- hyperactive — unusually or abnormally active: a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.
- hyperovaria — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.