15-Letter Words Containing V

Greed

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

Adversariness

ADVISABLENESS

""The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.""

Monopolistic

Lyrica and Valium, for two

Anticonvulsive

Antiderivative

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

SPECULATIVE Given to speculation; contemplative.

Plural noun (-sions)

Opposition to vivisection.

It makes my great-aunt evil in a quarrelsome way

Plural or third person singular

""A condition caused by the dietary deficiency of riboflavin that is characterized by mouth lesions, seborrhea, and vascularization of the cornea.""

ASSERTIVENESS assertive

Associativity

ATTENTIVENESS attentive

Authoritative

""AVAILABLENESS Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. as, the availableness of a title.""

Believability

The degree to which or rate at which a drug or other substance is absorbed or becomes available at the site of physiological activity after administration.

Bougainvillaea

Bouleversement

Carnivorous

Of or relating to the blood vessels that supply the brain.

'... put a girdle round the earth ...'

Went Magellan one farther

Went completely around

Circumnavigate

Drake, for one

Phileas Fogg, for one

One of the great all-rounders

CIRCUMVALLATE To surround with a rampart or wall.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

Circumvolution

CIVILIANIZE CIVILIAN a nonmilitary person

Coinvestigator

Collaborative

COMBATIVENESS The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

Commemorative

Communicative

Commutativity

Comparative

Competitive

How Ph.D. aspirants are tested

So as to contain everything

Including everything

Conceivable

CONDUCIVENESS The quality of conducing.

The state or quality of being consecutive.

A greenkeeper (wordplay)

Green satin cover is not to be changed

T.R. was one

""A person in charge of maintaining or restoring valuable items, as in a museum or library.""

Constructivism

Constructivist

Thoughtfully.

Contrapositive

In a polemical manner.

Polemically

Italian footballer and friend entertaining Tranmere team in a contentious manner

""That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.""

One who adheres to a convention or treaty.

Reluctance to stand out

Customary nature

Custom.

""To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.""

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

""CONVEYORIZE CONVEYOR one that conveys, also CONVEYER""

What police seek in an investigation

CORROSIVENESS corrosive

Might it be used against dishonest shop-assistant (wordplay)

A movement in opposition to another.

Noun (-ence)

Cultivability

Abbr. CMV Any of a group of herpes viruses that attack and enlarge epithelial cells. Such viruses also cause a disease of infants characterized by circulatory dysfunction and microcephaly.

DECEPTIVENESS The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

DEFECTIVENESS defective

DEFENSIVENESS defensive

Demisemiquaver

With exuberance

Without reticence

Derivatization

Descriptive

Vandal's trait

Malevolent nature

Ruinous quality

Destructivity

Developmental

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

DIFFUSIVENESS The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.

Unfavorable

Unfavourable

State of being distinctive.

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Divertissement

""DORSIVENTRAL Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

""DORSOVENTRAL From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

EFFECTIVENESS The quality of being effective.

""Having the property of being attracted by an electropositive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.""

Like certain charges

Envenomization

Adverb for conservationists

Greenly press hands with Lofty, consumed by one of 1 down

Relative to one's surroundings, to be jealous of taking in robots that tall

VOCALNESSES vocalness

Evangelization

Quality of being eternal

Endlessness

EVOCATIVENESS evocative

EXCESSIVENESS excessive

EXCLUSIVENESS Quality of being exclusive.

EXCOMMUNICATE Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

EXCURSIVENESS excursive

EXPANSIVENESS expansive

EXPENSIVENESS expensive

EXPLOSIVENESS explosive

EXTENSIVENESS The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.

FAVORABLENESS favorable

FORGIVINGNESS forgiving

FRIVOLOUSNESS frivolous

""GOVERNMENTAL Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. as, governmental duties.""

GOVERNMENTALISE governmental

""GOVERNMENTAL Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties. as, governmental duties.""

Gravimetrical

Gravitational

Hyperactivity

""AGGRESSIVE Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.""

INVOLUTION The act of involving or infolding.

REACTIVITY

RESPONSIVE That responds; ready or inclined to respond.

""SALIVATION The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompained with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.""

Hypervelocity

Patient held very tight breathed very heavily

Hyperventilate

Hypervigilance

Child's forte

What prosaic minds lack

Creative thought.

IMITATIVENESS imitative

IMMOVABLENESS Quality of being immovable.

IMPASSIVENESS impassive

Implicative

Impoverishment

Improvability

Like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Like comedy that's performed without a script

I am tentative about a theatrical opening that's unrehearsed

IMPROVISATORI

IMPULSIVENESS The quality of being impulsive.

Lack of concentration

Symptom of spring fever.

INCLUSIVENESS inclusive

""Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.""

Inconveniency

""INCONVENIENCE The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.""

INDIVIDUALISE individual

Markedly self-reliant

Laissez-faire

Individuality

""INDIVIDUALIZE The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality.""

Quality of being ineffective.

They're bound to happen

It's fashionable to no longer think on the point of quality - that's cheap!

Informative

Inoffensive

Inoperative

A nose for news.

Quidnunc's trait

Curiosity

Insensitive

Insensitivity

Forte of Mr. Chips

INTENSIVENESS The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

BEHAVIORAL of or pertaining to behavior.

""CONVERSION The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.""

Interconvert

""DIVISIONAL That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police.""

""INDIVIDUAL Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. as, an individual man, animal, or city.""

Plural or third person singular

""PROVINCIAL Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.""

""In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner.""

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

Intervalometer

Interference by a government in economic matters

High-level meddler

Non-isolationist.

Favouring involvement in another state's affairs

VISIBILITY The quality or state of being visible.

""VISITATION The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.""

Intravascular

""INTROSPECTIVE Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; selfconscious.""

INTRUSIVENESS intrusive

INTUITIVENESS intuitive

Intussuscept

Invariability

INVECTIVENESS invective

INVENTIVENESS inventive

""INVESTIGATION The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist. as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.""

INVIDIOUSNESS invidious

Invincibility

Inviolability

INVIOLATENESS inviolate

INVISIBLENESS The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility.

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

Immunity to harm or damage

Madam lacks this no-U-turn quality

Irrevocable

Handyman's trait (wordplay)

Trait of one displaying good judgment

Good judgment

LUCRATIVENESS lucrative

Macroevolution

A. A strategic or tactical military or naval movement.

MARVELOUSNESS The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.

Microevolution

Mischievous

""VOCALIZATION The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.""

Adjective (-al)

Word with prefix multi-

""CONSERVATISM The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.""

Cover insane vote cast with Bush's persuasion (wordplay)

NERVELESSNESS The state of being nerveless.

Nonachievement

Nonadditivity

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

""CONSERVATION The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.""