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17-letter words containing a, n, t, o, v

  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • convection heater — A convection heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • converter reactor — a nuclear reactor for converting one fuel into another, esp one that transforms fertile material into fissionable material
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • development grant — a grant awarded, esp by a government, to a person or company in order to fund the development of a new product
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
  • geneva convention — one of a series of international agreements, first made in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1864, establishing rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, the wounded, and the dead in battle.
  • get above oneself — If you say that someone is getting above themself, you disapprove of them because they think they are better than everyone else.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • give satisfaction — to satisfy
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
  • heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
  • hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
  • immediate version — child version
  • improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
  • improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
  • individualisation — Alternative spelling of individualization.
  • individualization — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
  • intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
  • intragovernmental — Within a government.
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • inversion therapy — a method used to stretch and align the body, especially the lower back, by suspending the entire body upside down from an apparatus that grips or supports the feet or knees.
  • jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
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