15-letter words containing v, y, s
- inversion layer — a layer of the atmosphere in which there is a temperature inversion, with the layer tending to prevent the air below it from rising, thus trapping any pollutants that are present.
- irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
- irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
- laundry service — clothes-washing business
- lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
- marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
- morelos y pavon — José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1765–1815, Mexican priest and revolutionary leader.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- myristicivorous — feeding on nutmeg
- non-conveyances — the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
- observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
- open university — higher education by correspondence
- ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
- oversensitivity — excessively or unduly sensitive.
- ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- polyvinyl resin — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the polymerization or copolymerization of a vinyl compound: used chiefly as adhesives, sizing agents, and coatings.
- postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- reserved memory — (storage) The address range 640-1024 kilobytes on an IBM PC, reserved for BIOS, video cards, and add-on cards. Depending on the configuration some of the address space may be unused in which case it can be used by EMS or UMB.
- retrospectively — with contemplation of past situations, events, etc.: You should examine your relationship retrospectively.
- rimsky-korsakov — Nicolai Andreevich [nyi-kuh-lahy uhn-drye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kəˈlaɪ ʌnˈdryɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1844–1908, Russian composer.
- salivary glands — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- service economy — an economy which is dominated by the provision or importance of services (as opposed to products)
- 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.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- sibling rivalry — the feeling of competitiveness that often exists between brothers and sisters
- significatively — serving to signify.
- silviculturally — with reference to silviculture
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
- 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.
- 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
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous 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.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner