16-letter words containing a, c, t, i, v, e
- controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
- controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
- controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
- conventionalised — to make conventional.
- conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
- conventionalized — to make conventional.
- conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
- conversation pit — a usually sunken portion of a room or living area with chairs, sofas, etc., often grouped around a fireplace, where people can gather to talk.
- conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
- conversion ratio — (in a reactor) the number of fissionable atoms produced by each fissionable atom that is destroyed.
- conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
- cooperative bank — a cooperative savings institution, chartered and regulated by a state or the federal government, that receives deposits in exchange for shares of ownership and invests its funds chiefly in loans secured by first mortgages on homes.
- cooperative farm — a farm that is run in cooperation with others in the purchasing and using of machinery, stock, etc, and in the marketing of produce through its own institutions (farmers' cooperatives)
- covariant theory — the principle that physical laws have the same form and interrelations in any system of coordinates in which they are expressed.
- creative commons — Sometimes, creative commons. a set of various licenses that allow people to share their copyrighted work to be copied, edited, built upon, etc., while retaining the copyright to the original work (often used attributively): We’re happy for other sites to share these photos under Creative Commons; a creative commons license.
- creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
- creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- curriculum vitae — A curriculum vitae is the same as a CV.
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- delta conversion — delta reduction
- devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- incentive travel — a vacation awarded to employees as a bonus in order to motivate them.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- interventricular — (anatomy) Located between the ventricles of the heart.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- intraventricular — (medicine) In a ventricle.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- janet ip service — (networking) (JIPS) Joint Academic NETwork Internet Protocol. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.