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