15-letter words containing ven
- inexpensiveness — The state or quality of being inexpensive.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- 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.
- instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
- 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.
- interventionist — the policy or doctrine of intervening, especially government interference in the affairs of another state or in domestic economic affairs.
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- lavender cotton — a silvery-gray, evergreen, woody composite plant, Santolina chamaecyparissus, of southern Europe, having yellow flower heads.
- liquidity event — the ending of an investor's involvement in a business venture with a view to realizing a gain or loss from the investment
- loss prevention — Loss prevention is the things that are done to make a process safe.
- maladaptiveness — The quality of being maladaptive.
- musical evening — a social evening with a musical programme
- nonconventional — conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste: conventional behavior.
- nonintervention — abstention by a nation from interference in the affairs of other nations or in those of its own political subdivisions.
- noninvasiveness — The characteristic of being noninvasive.
- obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- on an even keel — Nautical. a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
- open convention — a party convention at which delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
- penetrativeness — the quality or condition of being penetrative
- prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
- procreativeness — the quality of being procreative
- progressiveness — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prospectiveness — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- publicity event — an event designed to generate publicity
- qualitativeness — The state or quality of being qualitative.
- queen of heaven — a designation of the Virgin Mary.
- recycle solvent — A recycle solvent is a solvent (= a substance that can dissolve another substance) which is used in a recovery system.
- revenue officer — a government agent responsible for administering and collecting taxes
- revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- scavenge stroke — (in a reciprocating engine) the stroke of a piston in a four-stroke cycle that pushes the burnt gases out as exhaust
- seven-card stud — a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in each of the first two rounds, one card face up in each of the next four rounds, and one card face down in the last round, each of the last five rounds being followed by a betting interval. Compare stud poker (def 1).
- seven-year itch — scabies.
- seventy-seventh — next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
- substantiveness — a noun.
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- suppressiveness — the quality of being suppressive
- third ventricle — one of the four cavities of the brain, lying on the midline between the cerebral hemispheres
- to give vent to — If you give vent to your feelings, you express them forcefully.
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- unadventurously — in an unadventurous manner
- unobtrusiveness — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- vending machine — a coin-operated machine for selling small articles, beverages, etc.
- venetian dentil — (on an archivolt or molding) one of a series of small rectangular blocks having chamfers at alternate edges.
- venetian school — any of various groups of artists identified with Venice throughout the history of Italian art but most notably the painters of the 18th century, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Francesco Guardi, and Antonio Canaletto.