14-letter words containing y, a, v, r
- recoverability — able to recover or be recovered: a patient now believed to be recoverable; recoverable losses on his investments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- 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.
- sergiyev posad — a city in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Moscow.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- sherry vinegar — a gourmet wine vinegar produced in the Jerez region of S Spain
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- 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.
- 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 very idea! — that is preposterous, unreasonable, etc
- 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.
- unattractively — in an unattractive manner
- unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
- under-activity — insufficiently active: an underactive thyroid gland.
- undiscoverably — in an undiscoverable manner
- universal city — a city in S central Texas.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- van der weyden — Rogier (roːˈxiːr). ?1400–64, Flemish painter, esp of religious works and portraits
- vandyke collar — a wide collar of lace and linen with the edge formed into scallops or deep points.
- vapour density — the ratio of the density of a gas or vapour to that of hydrogen at the same temperature and pressure
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- varsity sports — sports involving the main or first teams at a high school, college, or university
- vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- venus' flytrap — a white-flowered swamp plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the sundew family, native to the Carolinas, having sensitive leaves with two hinged blades that snap shut, often trapping insects
- verbena family — the plant family Verbenaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having opposite or whorled leaves, clusters of irregular, sometimes fragrant flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the beautyberry, lantana, teak, verbena, and vervain.
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- vibratory mill — A vibratory mill is a machine for grinding something, in which the feed and grinding medium are between two surfaces which vibrate against each other.
- victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- viticulturally — in a viticultural manner
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
- yekaterinoslav — a former name of Dnepropetrovsk.