15-letter words containing ve
- head over heels — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- henry cavendish — Henry, 1731–1810, English chemist and physicist.
- heroin overdose — an excessive amount of the drug heroin, sufficient to cause illness or death
- 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.
- hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
- hovering vessel — a vessel in territorial waters apparently collaborating in illicit operations.
- 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.
- hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
- hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- 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 conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- in the event of — something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- 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.
- in vino veritas — in wine there is truth; people speak the truth when they are drunk
- incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
- incommunicative — not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inconveniencies — inconvenience.
- inconveniencing — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
- indemnity cover — cover providing insurance against damage or loss
- indistinctively — without distinctive characteristics.
- ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- inexpensiveness — The state or quality of being inexpensive.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- initiative test — a test to see how resourceful someone is and their ability to decide what to do and when to do it
- innominate vein — brachiocephalic vein.
- inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
- inoffensiveness — The state or condition of being inoffensive.
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- inquisitiveness — given to inquiry, research, or asking questions; eager for knowledge; intellectually curious: an inquisitive mind.
- insensitiveness — Quality of being insensitive.
- insignificative — not expressed or denoted by external signs
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- interconversion — conversion of each of two things into the other; reciprocal conversion.
- interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
- intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
- intertransverse — (anatomy) Between the transverse processes of the vertebrae.
- interuniversity — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
- interventionary — the act or fact of intervening.
- interventionism — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.