14-letter words containing v, y
- have one's say — When one of the people or groups involved in a discussion has their say, they give their opinion.
- heavy breather — a person who breathes stertorously or with difficulty
- heavy hydrogen — either of the heavy isotopes of hydrogen, especially deuterium.
- heavy industry — bulk materials manufacturing
- heavy nitrogen — the stable isotope of nitrogen having a mass number of 15.
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- hybrid vehicle — A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle using two different forms of power, such as an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or an electric motor with a battery and fuel cells for energy storage.
- hyper-vigilant — keenly watchful to detect danger; wary: a vigilant sentry.
- hypercivilised — extremely or excessively civilized
- hypercivilized — Very highly civilized.
- hypersensitive — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- hyperventilate — to be afflicted with hyperventilation; breathe abnormally fast and deep.
- hypervigilance — state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- hypoventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypoventilate.
- illustratively — In an illustrative manner.
- imperviability — the quality of being imperviable
- inadvisability — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inconclusively — In an inconclusive manner.
- inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- indivisibility — not divisible; not separable into parts; incapable of being divided: one nation indivisible.
- inferior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.
- insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
- intempestively — in an intempestive manner
- intempestivity — the state or quality of being intempestive
- interpretively — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- intransitively — (grammar) In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
- intransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being intransitive.
- introversively — In an introversive manner.
- inventory cost — Inventory costs are the costs to a business associated with holding stock, or money that is tied up in stock.
- invigoratingly — In an invigorating manner.
- irremovability — The quality or state of being irremovable.
- irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
- junior varsity — a university, college, or school team that consists of players who lack the qualifications or skill necessary for the varsity and compete against other teams of similar composition or ability.
- kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
- larval therapy — the use of maggots that feed on dead tissue to assist in the healing of serious wounds. An ancient practice, it has been revived in rare cases in which healing is hampered by the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
- lavatory paper — Lavatory paper is paper that you use to clean yourself after you have got rid of urine or faeces from your body.
- livery company — a distinctive uniform, badge, or device formerly provided by someone of rank or title for his retainers, as in time of war.
- living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
- longevity risk — Longevity risk is the potential risk attached to the increasing life expectancy of policyholders, which can result in higher than expected payouts for insurance companies.
- major delivery — (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be "v9.0".
- manipulatively — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- matrimony vine — any plant belonging to the genus Lycium, of the nightshade family, species of which are cultivated for their foliage, flowers, and berries.
- maturity value — The maturity value of a life insurance policy is the amount of money that is paid out when it matures.
- mommy makeover — a cosmetic surgical procedure designed to reverse physical changes in a woman after childbirth
- motivationally — In a motivational manner.
- movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key