13-letter words containing y, v, e
- overbearingly — domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant.
- overcredulity — Excessive credulity.
- overdiversity — excessive diversity
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overfrequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
- overintensity — the state of being too intense
- overlay glass — case glass.
- overseriously — in an excessively serious manner
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overzealously — too zealous: overzealous for reform.
- penetratively — in a penetrative manner
- pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- poverty level — poverty line.
- pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- qualitatively — pertaining to or concerned with quality or qualities.
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-entry visa — a visa that allows someone to enter a country again several times
- rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
- receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
- recovery room — a room near the operating or delivery room of a hospital, equipped with specific apparatus and staffed by specially trained personnel for emergencies, used for the recovery from anesthesia of a postoperative or obstetrical patient before being brought to a hospital room or ward.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- recovery team — a team engaged in locating and retrieving bodies, cargo, etc, esp following a crash, explosion or natural disaster
- red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
- restless cavy — a wild guinea pig.
- restoratively — in a restorative manner
- restrictively — tending or serving to restrict.
- retroactively — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
- reverberatory — characterized or produced by reverberation.
- reverentially — of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent: reverential awe.
- reversibility — capable of reversing or of being reversed.
- revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
- river estuary — a river mouth
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- safety device — A safety device is a piece of equipment such as a fire extinguisher, safety belt, or burglar alarm that reduces loss or damage from a fire, accident, or break-in.
- salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc