21-letter words containing a, d, v
- flat-coated retriever — one of an English breed of large sporting dogs having a flat, dense, shiny black or liver-colored coat, small ears, and long jaws, used for retrieving game from both water and land.
- food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
- fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
- free alongside vessel — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
- get/have the goods on — If you get the goods or have the goods on someone, you have evidence that they have done something wrong or criminal.
- giovanni da verrazano — Giovanni da [jaw-vahn-nee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni dɑ/ (Show IPA), c1480–1527? Italian navigator and explorer.
- give a horse its head — to allow a horse to gallop by lengthening the reins
- give sb the runaround — If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it.
- give someone his head — to allow a person greater freedom or responsibility
- got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
- government department — a sector of a national or state government that deals with a particular area of interest
- great victoria desert — a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).
- green river ordinance — a local ordinance banning door-to-door selling.
- have heard sth before — If you say that you have heard something before, you mean that you are not interested in it, or do not believe it, or are not surprised about it, because you already know about it or have experienced it.
- have one's cards read — If you have your cards read, you have your fortune told by someone who uses playing cards or tarot cards to tell you about yourself and predict your future.
- have one's hands full — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- have one's hands tied — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- have the advantage of — benefit from: sth extra
- have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
- hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
- induced radioactivity — artificial radioactivity.
- industrial revolution — (sometimes initial capital letters) the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
- intravenous drug user — a drug addict who injects drugs (esp heroin) intravenously
- kekule von stradonitz — Friedrich August [free-drikh ou-goo st] /ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1829–96, German chemist.
- keyboard send receive — (hardware) (KSR) Part of a designation for a hard-copy terminal, manufactured by Teletype Corporation. The KSR range were lower cost versions of the ASR models.
- lafcadio's adventures — French Les Caves du Vatican. a novel (1914) by André Gide.
- leave holding the bag — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
- light armored vehicle — an eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance car with a 25mm cannon, in service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in the 1980s.
- magneto-optical drive — magneto-optical disk
- maple-leaved viburnum — dockmackie.
- mariage de convenance — marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage, as for social, political, or economic reasons, usually without love and sometimes without the expectation of sexual relations.
- mauvais quart d'heure — a brief unpleasant experience
- mean square deviation — variance (def 3).
- mohammed reza pahlavi — 1919-80; shah of Iran (1941-79); deposed
- move heaven and earth — the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life.
- muhammad riza pahlavi — Pahlavi (def 1).
- nominative of address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
- notre-dame-des-vertus — an industrial suburb of Paris, on the Seine. Pop: 63 136 (1999)
- of time and the river — a novel (1935) by Thomas Wolfe.
- over and over (again) — repeatedly; time after time
- overhead-valve engine — I-head engine.
- politically motivated — If an act of violence is politically motivated, it is carried out in the interests of a particular government or political party.
- premium savings bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- privacy enhanced mail —
- progressive education — any of various reformist educational philosophies and methodologies since the late 1800s, applied especially to elementary schools, that reject the rote recitation and strict discipline of traditional, single-classroom teaching, favoring instead more stimulation of the individual pupil as well as group discussion, more informality in the classroom, a broader curriculum, and use of laboratories, gymnasiums, kitchens, etc., in the school.
- radius of convergence — a positive number so related to a given power series that the power series converges for every number whose absolute value is less than this particular number.
- real-estate developer — a person who buys and develops houses, buildings, and land in order to sell them and make a profit from them
- record of achievement — a statement of the personal and educational development of each pupil
- redevelopment company — a private corporation or a public agency that stimulates the improvement of land, as through a building project subject to certain designs and controls, by financing, selling, or leasing such real estate to interested buyers or lessees.
- revillagigedo islands — an uninhabited island group belonging to Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean, SSW of the Baja California peninsula: Socorro is the largest island. 320 sq. mi. (830 sq. km).