13-letter words containing v, y, a
- conventionary — (of a form of tenure) fixed by convention as opposed to custom
- convulsionary — of or affected with convulsion.
- cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperativity — an interaction between structural units within a molecule or between molecules in an assemblage that enables the system to respond more sharply to an external change than would isolated units
- copy negative — master (def 21).
- coronary vein — any of several veins that receive blood from the heart wall and empty into the coronary sinus.
- correlatively — so related that each implies or complements the other.
- curvilinearly — In a curvilinear way.
- cyberactivism — Activism facilitated by the Internet.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- declaratively — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
- denmark vesey — Denmark, 1767–1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- devolutionary — the act or fact of devolving; passage onward from stage to stage.
- discovery bay — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in SE Australia
- discovery day — Columbus Day.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- early-evening — taking place or being presented in the early part of the evening
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
- evangelically — In an evangelical manner, concerning evangelism.
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
- evidentiarily — In an evidentiary way.
- executive pay — the money that an executive of an organization gets as wages or salary
- explanatively — in an explanative manner
- explicatively — in an explicative or explanatory manner
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- extravagantly — With lavish expenditure or behaviour.
- face validity — the extent to which a psychological test appears to measure what it is intended to measure
- facultatively — In a facultative manner.
- family values — belief in traditional family unit
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- five-day week — a system in which people work for five days in every seven
- galvanoplasty — electrotypy.
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- glove factory — a factory where gloves are made
- golden valley — a town in SE Minnesota.
- governability — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
- grape variety — type of grape
- gravity clock — a clock driven by its own weight as it descends a rack, cord, incline, etc.
- gravity fault — a fault along an inclined plane in which the upper side or hanging wall appears to have moved downward with respect to the lower side or footwall (opposed to reverse fault).
- gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
- gravity meter — gravimeter (def 2).
- gravity scale — a scale giving the relative density of fluids
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- heavenly body — celestial object: star, planet, etc.
- heavenly city — the abode of God and His saints; heaven. Rev. 21:2.
- heavily built — with a big heavy body
- heavy cruiser — a naval cruiser having 8-inch (20.3-cm) guns as its main armament.