14-letter words containing v, y
- red-eyed vireo — an American vireo, Vireo olivaceus, having olive-green and white plumage and red irises.
- reserve player — a member of a sports team who plays in place of another player if they are injured, etc
- retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
- revert to type — go back to one's usual behaviour
- rievaulx abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Helmsley in Yorkshire: built in the 12th century and abandoned at the dissolution of the monasteries; landscaped in the 18th century
- rural delivery — a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office
- salivary gland — any of several glands, as the submaxillary glands, that secrete saliva.
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
- secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
- security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
- seismic survey — A seismic survey is a method of investigating underground properties and rock patterns using induced shock wave reflections.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- seventy-eighth — next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
- seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
- seventy-second — next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
- sivananda yoga — a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation
- slave cylinder — a small cylinder containing a piston that operates the brake shoes or pads in hydraulic brakes or the working part in any other hydraulically operated system
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- solvay process — a process for manufacturing sodium carbonate whereby a concentrated solution of sodium chloride is saturated with ammonia, carbon dioxide is passed through it, and the product is calcined.
- spuyten duyvil — ship canal between N Manhattan Island & the mainland, connecting the Hudson & Harlem rivers
- substitutivity — the principle that expressions with the same reference can be substituted for one another without affecting the truth-value of any context in which they occur
- superior ovary — Botany. an ovary positioned above a receptacle of a flower, as in members of the mint family.
- take inventory — count stock or belongings
- tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
- the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
- the very devil — something very difficult or awkward
- the very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
- thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
- topsy-turvydom — a state of affairs or a region in which everything is topsy-turvy.
- transmissivity — a measure of the ability of a material or medium to transmit electromagnetic energy, as light.
- transmittivity — the transmittance of unit thickness of a substance, neglecting any scattering effects
- transversality — the state of being transversal
- traveler's-joy — a woody vine, Clematis vitalba, of the buttercup family, native to Europe and northern Africa, having long-plumed fruit and slightly fragrant, white flowers.
- turkey vulture — a blackish-brown vulture, Cathartes aura, from the southern U.S. to South America, having a bare, wrinkled, red head and neck.
- twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
- ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
- unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner