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14-letter words containing y, v

  • deer fly fever — tularemia.
  • defective year — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
  • deliberatively — having the function of deliberating, as a legislative assembly: a deliberative body.
  • deliverability — capable of delivery.
  • delivery order — a document that records an order for delivery of goods
  • delivery suite — the area in a hospital where babies are delivered
  • derivationally — In a derivational manner.
  • developability — to bring out the capabilities or possibilities of; bring to a more advanced or effective state: to develop natural resources; to develop one's musical talent.
  • devil-may-care — If you say that someone has a devil-may-care attitude, you mean that they seem relaxed and do not seem worried about the consequences of their actions.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • disapprovingly — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • disbelievingly — In a disbelieving manner; in a manner that is difficult to believe.
  • discovery club — a division of Camp Fire, Inc., for members who are 12 or 13 years of age.
  • dispensatively — in a dispensative manner
  • disprovability — The ability to be disproven; refutability.
  • distributively — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
  • distributivity — (mathematics) the fact of being distributive.
  • ditransitivity — (grammar) The state or quality of being ditransitive.
  • dividend yield — a company's annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization
  • divine liturgy — liturgy (def 5).
  • divinylbenzene — a clear liquid, C 10 H 10 , easily polymerized, used in the manufacture of rubbers, drying oils, ion-exchange resins, and polyesters.
  • dorsoventrally — In a dorsoventral manner.
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
  • each and every — all
  • effervescently — effervescing; bubbling.
  • electrovalency — (physics) The net electric charge on an ion.
  • evening prayer — the daily evening service of Bible readings and prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer
  • every man jack — everyone without exception
  • every so often — now and again
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • evolutionarily — In an evolutionary manner.
  • exploitatively — In an exploitative manner.
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • five-year plan — any plan for national economic or industrial development specifying goals to be reached within a period of five years, especially as undertaken by the Soviet Union and China.
  • formally valid — (of an inference or argument) when the inference is justified by the form of the premises and conclusion alone. Thus Tom is a bachelor; therefore Tom is unmarried is valid but not formally so, while today is hot and dry; therefore today is hot is formally valid
  • friendiversary — the yearly recurrence of the date that two or more people first became friends: Next Thursday is our third friendiversary!
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
  • garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
  • governing body — board, regulatory authority
  • governmentally — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • graveyard slot — the hours from late night until early morning when the number of people watching television is at its lowest
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • gravity assist — the technique of using the energy of a gravitational field and the orbital velocity of a planet to change the speed and trajectory of a spacecraft.
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • hanging valley — a valley, the lower end of which opens high above a shore, usually caused by the rapid erosion of a cliff.
  • have an eye to — to watch out for; attend to
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