15-letter words containing iv
- to give vent to — If you give vent to your feelings, you express them forcefully.
- touch-sensitive — Touch-sensitive equipment is operated by the user touching it.
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- transindividual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
- trivial pursuit — a board game that is based the ability to answer questions on popular culture and general knowledge
- ulterior motive — secret or underlying aim
- unauthoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
- uncommunicative — not inclined to talk or disclose information; reserved; taciturn.
- uncomprehensive — of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive: a comprehensive study of world affairs.
- uncooperatively — in an uncooperative or unhelpful manner
- undemonstrative — not given to open exhibition or expression of emotion, especially of affection.
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.
- universal donor — a person with blood of group O.
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- universal motor — a series-wound motor, of one-half horsepower or less, using alternating or direct current.
- universal stage — a small theodolite mounted on the stage of a polarizing microscope and used in the petrographic analysis of rocks.
- university city — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- university park — a city in N Texas.
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- unparticipative — 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.
- unprogressively — in an unprogressive manner
- vacuum activity — instinctive behaviour occurring in the absence of the appropriate stimulus
- vegetable ivory — ivory (def 9).
- vegetative coma — a condition in which an injured person is alive but comatose, and does not respond to stimuli
- vindicativeness — the quality or state of being vindicative
- voice-activated — (of a telephone answering machine or other device) operationally responsive to a human voice.
- volta river dam — a hydroelectric dam on the Volta river
- voltage divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
- well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position