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17-letter words containing a, y, u, r, v

  • active vocabulary — the total number of words a person uses in his own speech and writing
  • adventure holiday — a holiday that involves some physically challenging activity such as canoeing, rock climbing, etc
  • antirevolutionary — opposed to revolution, esp opposed to a particular revolution and the people who are carrying it out
  • aviation industry — a collective term for the companies involved in air transport
  • behaviour therapy — any of various means of treating psychological disorders, such as desensitization, aversion therapy, and instrumental conditioning, that depend on the patient systematically learning new modes of behaviour
  • binocular rivalry — the phenomenon whereby one is unable to see simultaneously different images presented one to each eye; usually in some areas of the eye the image presented to the left eye is seen, in others that presented to the right eye
  • campus university — a university in which the buildings, often including shops and cafés, are all on one site
  • circular velocity — the velocity at which a body must move in order to maintain an orbit at the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere.
  • cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • geological survey — U.S. Government. a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1879, that studies the nation's water and mineral resources, makes topographic surveys, and classifies and leases public lands.
  • gnu privacy guard
  • household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
  • pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • relative humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • revolutionary war — American Revolution.
  • rotary cultivator — a machine for breaking up and tilling soil, consisting of a series of blades mounted on a revolving power-driven shaft
  • structural survey — an examination of a property carried out by surveyor which should reveal any problems with the building
  • subclavian artery — either of a pair of arteries, one on each side of the body, that carry the main supply of blood to the arms.
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • the evil day/hour — If someone is putting off the evil day or the evil hour, they have to do something unpleasant and are trying to avoid doing it for as long as possible.
  • varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
  • vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
  • vestibular system — the sensory mechanism in the inner ear that detects movement of the head and helps to control balance
  • visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.

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