16-letter words containing c, a, r, v
- nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
- objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- off-road vehicle — An off-road vehicle is a vehicle that is designed to travel over rough ground.
- orbital velocity — the minimum velocity at which a body must move to maintain a given orbit.
- over-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
- over-communicate — to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
- over-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- over-expectation — the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
- over-romanticize — to make romantic; invest with a romantic character: Many people romanticize the role of an editor.
- over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcautiousness — the quality or state of being too cautious, wary, or careful
- 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.
- overcompensatory — 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.
- overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
- overexcitability — to excite too much.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
- prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
- primary deviance — the violation of a norm or rule that does not result in the violator's being stigmatized as deviant.
- private practice — the practice of one's profession as an independent rather than as an employee.
- private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
- projective plane — (mathematics) The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
- proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
- pyrovanadic acid — an oxyacid of vanadium, known chiefly in the form of its vanadate salts; Formula: H4V2O7
- pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- refractive index — index of refraction.
- relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
- republican river — a river flowing E from E Colorado through Nebraska and Kansas into the Kansas River. 422 miles (680 km) long.
- reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
- reserve capacity — the capacity of a battery, measured in minutes, to keep a vehicle operating if the charging system fails.
- resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
- reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
- reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
- river carpsucker — a carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio, found in silty rivers of the central U.S. south to Mexico.
- 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.
- savonarola chair — a chair of the Renaissance having a number of transverse pairs of curved legs, crossing beneath the seat and rising to support the arms and back.
- scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- service contract — law: between employer and employee
- service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
- service entrance — an entrance for the use of servants, delivery people, or the like.