18-letter words containing a, l, e, v, p
- psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
- quarter-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 90° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby converting circularly polarized light into plane polarized light.
- redevelopment area — an urban area in which all or most of the buildings are demolished and rebuilt
- sea-level pressure — the atmospheric pressure, at any elevation, reduced by formula to a value approximating the pressure at sea level.
- special relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
- super royal octavo — a book size, 63⁄4 by 101⁄4 inches
- television company — a company that broadcasts programmes by television
- to play favourites — to display favouritism
- to scrape a living — If you say that someone scrapes a living or scratches a living, you mean that they manage to earn enough to live on, but it is very difficult. In American English, you say they scrape out a living or scratch out a living.
- universal coupling — a coupling between rotating shafts set at an angle to one another, allowing for rotation in three planes.
- valle de la pascua — a city in N Venezuela.
- venture capitalist — funds invested or available for investment in a new or unproven business enterprise.
- visible panty line — the line of someone's underwear which can be seen through trousers
- vulcan nerve pinch — (jargon) (Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip; from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a soft boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on IBM PCs and many microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on Suns, L1-A; on some Macintoshes, it is
- ! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12. Compare quadruple bucky. - west puente valley — a town in SW California.