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15-letter words containing b, e, v, i

  • investment bond — a single-premium life-assurance policy in which a fixed sum is invested in an asset-backed fund
  • invisible glass — glass that has been curved to eliminate reflections.
  • invulnerability — incapable of being wounded, hurt, or damaged.
  • ipsissima verba — with the very words; verbatim.
  • irresolvability — The quality of being irresolvable.
  • irreversibility — not reversible; incapable of being changed: His refusal is irreversible.
  • irrevocableness — Quality of being irrevocable.
  • labor-intensive — requiring or using a large supply of labor, relative to capital.
  • leonid brezhnev — Leonid Ilyich [ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
  • livery cupboard — a cupboard with pierced doors, formerly used as a storage place for food.
  • lord it over sb — If someone lords it over you, they act in a way that shows that they think they are better than you, especially by giving lots of orders.
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • maneuverability — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • medieval breton — the Breton language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 12th to the mid-17th centuries.
  • medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
  • might-have-been — that which might have occurred if it were not for other events
  • mountain beaver — a burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of W North America: family Aplodontidae
  • negative number — a number that is less than 0
  • neurobehavioral — of or relating to an approach to studying behavior that stresses the importance of nerve and brain function.
  • non-substantive — a noun.
  • novokuibyshevsk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, SW of Kuibyshev.
  • objective prism — a large prism placed in front of the objective lens or mirror of a telescope, allowing the simultaneous acquisition of the spectra of many stars.
  • observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed.
  • observationally — of, relating to, or founded on observation, especially founded on observation rather than experiment.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • omnibenevolence — unlimited kindness and generosity
  • over-publicized — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
  • overbearingness — Quality of being overbearing.
  • pareira (brava) — the stem of a South American curare plant
  • peruvian balsam — Peru balsam.
  • 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
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
  • quasi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • random variable — a quantity that takes any of a set of values with specified probabilities.
  • retrievableness — the state or quality of being retrievable
  • river blindness — onchocerciasis.
  • riverbank grape — a high-climbing vine, Vitis riparia, of eastern North America, having fragrant flowers and nearly black fruit.
  • self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • slavonian grebe — a N Eurasian or N American grebe with reddish underside and a black and gold crest; Podiceps auritus
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
  • subclavian vein — either of a pair of veins, one on each side of the body, that return blood from the arms to the heart.
  • substantiveness — a noun.
  • svedberg (unit) — a unit of time, equal to 10-13 second, used in determining the rate of sedimentation of a macromolecule in an ultracentrifuge
  • television tube — a cathode-ray tube designed for the reproduction of television pictures
  • transitive verb — a verb accompanied by a direct object and from which a passive can be formed, as deny, rectify, elect.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • unadvisableness — the quality of being imprudent or not advisable
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