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16-letter words containing a, v

  • fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
  • fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
  • filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
  • fit like a glove — fit perfectly
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
  • forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
  • four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
  • franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • gender-normative — cisgender.
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
  • gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • gnu archive site — (body)   The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
  • governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • 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
  • harvard graphics — (graphics, tool)   A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
  • harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • have a big mouth — to speak indiscreetly, loudly, or excessively
  • have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
  • have a good time — enjoy yourself, have fun
  • have a hard time — experience difficulties
  • have a talk with — discuss
  • have a word with — discuss
  • have been around — be experienced
  • have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
  • have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
  • have no business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • have no time for — not tolerate
  • have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
  • have the decency — If you say that someone did not have the decency to do something, you are criticizing them because there was a particular action which they did not do but which you believe they ought to have done.
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