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16-letter words containing a, v, e, m, r, i

  • memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
  • merchant service — A merchant service is a provider of credit card processing services.
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • military service — compulsory period spent in the army
  • mind over matter — You can use the expression mind over matter to describe situations in which a person seems to be able to control events, physical objects, or the condition of their own body using their mind.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • native americans — a person born in the United States.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • non-remunerative — affording remuneration; profitable: remunerative work.
  • north vietnamese — relating to North Vietnam or its people
  • over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
  • over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
  • over-sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
  • overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
  • overcompensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
  • private judgment — personal opinion formed independently of the expressed position of an institution, as in matters of religion or politics.
  • privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • rear-view mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
  • relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
  • relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
  • relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
  • relatively prime — (mathematics)   Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
  • salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
  • same-day service — (humour, operating system)   An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
  • service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
  • silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
  • valles marineris — a canyon on Mars, 3100 miles (5000 km) in length, named after the Mariner spacecraft.
  • vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
  • video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
  • visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
  • vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
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