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15-letter words containing y, a, v, r

  • hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • imperial valley — an irrigated agricultural region in SE California, adjacent to Mexico, formerly a part of the Colorado Desert: it is largely below sea level and contains the Salton Sink.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
  • intravascularly — Within a blood vessel.
  • 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.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • laundry service — clothes-washing business
  • lavatory humour — humour characterized by excessive mention of lavatories and the excretory functions; vulgar or scatological humour
  • leonid andreyev — Leonid Nikolaevich [lee-uh-nid nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ˈli ə nɪd ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1919, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
  • literary device — technique used in writing
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lord privy seal — a cabinet minister without portfolio.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • maternity leave — a leave of absence for an expectant or new mother for the birth and care of the baby.
  • 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).
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • ordnance survey — mapmaking agency
  • over-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
  • overemotionally — In an overemotional manner.
  • overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
  • ovoviviparously — in an ovoviviparous manner
  • paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
  • participatively — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
  • paternity leave — a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby.
  • phenyl valerate — a colorless, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 1 1 H 1 4 O 2 , used chiefly in flavoring and perfumery.
  • 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
  • postoperatively — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • private pay bed — (in Britain) a bed in a National Health Service hospital, reserved for private patients who pay a consultant acting privately for treatment and who are charged by the health service for use of hospital facilities
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • public lavatory — a public toilet
  • pulmonary valve — a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.
  • quantum gravity — a theory of the gravitational interaction that involves quantum mechanics to explain the force
  • radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
  • remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
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