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15-letter words containing iv

  • double genitive — a possessive construction consisting of a prepositional phrase with of containing a substantive in the possessive case, as of father's in He is a friend of father's.
  • double negative — a syntactic construction in which two negative words are used in the same clause to express a single negation.
  • drive-up window — a window through which customers are served at a drive-through facility.
  • driving licence — A driving licence is a card showing that you are qualified to drive because you have passed a driving test.
  • driving license — A driving license is the same as a driver's license.
  • drunken driving — the crime of driving while classified as under the influence of alcohol because the quantity of alcohol in your blood exceeds legally permitted levels
  • dumpster diving — the practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.
  • electronegative — Electrically negative.
  • electropositive — Electrically positive.
  • erosive mixture — An erosive mixture is a mixture containing substances that wear away components or cause problems with the flow of oil along pipelines.
  • executive board — administrative committee
  • executive order — An executive order is a regulation issued by a member of the executive branch of government. It has the same authority as a law.
  • experimentative — having a tendency to experiment; experimental; of the nature of an experiment
  • extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
  • family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • free university — a school run informally by and for college students, organized to offer courses and approaches not usually offered in a college curriculum.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • give a monkey's — to care about or regard as important
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • give it the gun — to cause something to start or gain speed
  • give me a break — to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments: He broke a vase.
  • give sb a break — You can say 'give me a break' to show that you are annoyed by what someone has said or done.
  • give sth a miss — If you give something a miss, you decide not to do it or not to go to it.
  • give sth a rest — If someone tells you to give something a rest, they want you to stop doing it because it annoys them or because they think it is harming you.
  • give the finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • give them heaps — to contend strenuously with an opposing sporting team
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • guadalupe river — a river in SE Texas, flowing SE to the San Antonio River. 250 miles (402 km) long.
  • hard disk drive — (storage)   (HDD) A disk drive used to read and write hard disks.
  • heteronormative — noting or relating to behavior or attitudes consistent with traditional male or female gender roles and the assumption of heterosexuality as the norm: our heteronormative culture.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
  • 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.
  • hyperreactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
  • hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
  • imitative magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
  • impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
  • implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
  • in the negative — by saying no
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • incentivization — (US, business, economics) The act or process of incentivizing.
  • incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
  • incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
  • indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
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