16-letter words containing a, g, v, e
- grace-and-favour — (of a house, flat, etc) owned by the sovereign and granted free of rent to a person to whom the sovereign wishes to express gratitude
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
- great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
- green vegetables — green edible plants
- have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
- have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
- have the edge on — to have a slight advantage or superiority over
- high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
- hot stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hot-stove league — devotees of a sport, especially baseball, who meet for off-season talks.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- ivyleaf geranium — a geranium plant, pelargonium peltatum, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers
- javaserver pages — (programming, web) (JSP) A freely available specification for extending the Java Servlet API to generate dynamic web pages on a web server. The JSP specification was written by industry leaders as part of the Java development program. JSP assists developers in creating HTML or XML pages that combine static (fixed) page templates with dynamic content. Separating the user interface from content generation allows page designers to change the page layout without having to rewrite program code. JSP was designed to be simpler than pure servlets or CGI scripting. JSP uses XML-like tags and scripts written in Java to generate the page content. HTML or XML formatting tags are passed back to the client. Application logic can live on the server, e.g. in JavaBeans. JSP is a cross-platform alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages, which only runs in IIS on Windows NT. Applications written to the JSP specification can be run on compliant web servers, and web servers such as Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, and Microsoft IIS that have had Java support added. JSP should soon be available on Unix, AS/400, and mainframe platforms.
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- legislative veto — a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, etc., of the executive branch.
- leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
- live like a king — If you say that someone lives like a king, you mean that they are able to live in a very comfortable or luxurious way.
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- manganese violet — a moderate to strong purple color.
- mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
- measuring device — gauge
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish
- nguyen van thieu — Nguyen Van [ngoo-yen vahn,, noo-] /ˈŋuˈyɛn vɑn,, ˈnu-/ (Show IPA), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese political leader: president 1967–75.
- objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
- on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
- over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- parents' evening — an occasion when the parents of children at a school and their teachers come together (outside normal school hours, in the evening) in order to discuss the progress or work of the children
- past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
- pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
- private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
- private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
- privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment