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17-letter words containing a, v, i

  • contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
  • 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.
  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • 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
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • dangerous driving — the act of driving a motor vehicle in a manner that falls far below that expected of a competent and careful driver and hence puts the life of the driver and the lives of other road users at risk
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • deceptive cadence — a cadence consisting of a dominant harmony followed by a resolution to a harmony other than the tonic.
  • deductive tableau — (tool)   A theorem proof system consisting of a table whose rows contain assertions or goals. Variables in assertions are implicitly universally quantified and variables in goals are implicitly existentially quantified. The declarative meaning of a tableau is that if every instance of every assertion is true then some instance of at least one of the goals is true.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
  • denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
  • desaix de veygoux — Louis Charles Antoine [lwee sharl ahn-twan] /lwi ʃærl ɑ̃ˈtwan/ (Show IPA), 1768–1800, French general.
  • designated driver — The designated driver in a group of people travelling together is the one who has agreed to drive, or who is insured to drive.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake
  • disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disaster recovery — (business)   (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • division of labor — a production process in which a worker or group of workers is assigned a specialized task in order to increase efficiency.
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • drive-by download — an incidence of an unwanted program being automatically downloaded to a computer, often without the user's knowledge
  • 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.
  • equivalence class — (mathematics)   An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
  • fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
  • fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
  • female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
  • female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
  • first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
  • fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
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