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17-letter words containing b, i, v

  • intersubjectivity — The state or condition of being intersubjective.
  • intransitive verb — a verb that indicates a complete action without being accompanied by a direct object, as sit or lie, and, in English, that does not form a passive.
  • inverted snobbery — the attitude of an inverted snob
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • invincible armada — Armada.
  • invisible balance — the difference in value between total exports of services plus payment of property incomes from abroad and total imports of services plus payment abroad of property incomes
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • invisible mending — any form of repair, esp to clothing, in which the aim is to make the finished repair work undetectable
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • job advertisement — an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about a post of employment
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
  • lautenclavicymbal — a harpsichord with strings of gut rather than metal.
  • macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.
  • microinvertebrate — An invertebrate of microscopic size.
  • mikhail gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
  • nashville warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, having a gray head, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts.
  • negative feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • otto von bismarck — Otto von [ot-oh von;; German aw-toh fuh n] /ˈɒt oʊ vɒn;; German ˈɔ toʊ fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90.
  • passive obedience — unquestioning obedience to authority
  • polyvinyl butyral — a white, water-insoluble, polyvinyl acetal made with butyraldehyde, used chiefly as an interlayer in the manufacture of safety glass.
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • primitive baptist — (especially in the Southern U.S.) one belonging to a highly conservative, loosely organized Baptist group, characterized by extreme fundamentalism and by opposition to missionary work, Sunday Schools, and the use of musical instruments in church.
  • probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • rybinsk reservoir — a vast water reservoir in W central Russia on the River Volga and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
  • spiral bevel gear — a bevel gear having curved teeth tending to converge on the axis of rotation.
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • state the obvious — point out sth already evident
  • 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.
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • subjective spirit — spirit, insofar as it falls short of the attainments of objective spirit.
  • subsistence level — low standard of living
  • substantive right — a right, as life, liberty, or property, recognized for its own sake and as part of the natural legal order of society.
  • subtractive color — cyan, yellow, or magenta, as used in the subtractive process of color photography.
  • supervisory board — a board of management of which nonmanagerial workers are members, having supervisory powers over some aspects of management decision-making
  • synovial membrane — anatomy: connective tissue
  • the beehive state — Utah
  • the-invisible-man — a novel (1897) by H.G. Wells.
  • to be eaten alive — If you say that someone will be eaten alive, you mean that they will be completely destroyed or defeated by someone who is much stronger.
  • universal algebra — (logic)   The model theory of first-order equational logic.
  • vanity publishing — the practice of the author of a book paying all or most of the costs of its publication
  • variable-geometry — denoting an aircraft in which the wings are hinged to give the variable aspect ratio colloquially known as a swing-wing
  • vegetable tanning — the act or process of tanning hide by the infusion of plant extract.
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