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17-letter words containing c, a, v, e, r, n

  • french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
  • government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
  • incendiary device — a bomb that is designed to start fires
  • incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
  • insectivorous bat — any bat of the suborder Microchiroptera, typically having large ears and feeding on insects. The group includes common bats (Myotis species), vampire bats, etc
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
  • inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
  • inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
  • invincible armada — Armada.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • leonardo da vinci — Leonardo [lee-uh-nahr-doh,, ley-;; Italian le-aw-nahr-daw] /ˌli əˈnɑr doʊ,, ˌleɪ-;; Italian ˌlɛ ɔˈnɑr dɔ/ (Show IPA), Leonardo da Vinci.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • macroinvertebrate — (zoology) An invertebrate that is large enough to be seen without the use of a microscope.
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • megaelectron volt — million electron volts.
  • membrane recovery — Membrane recovery is a process which uses membranes to obtain hydrogen from refinery fuel gas, hydrocrackers, and chemical processes such as methanol production.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • microinvertebrate — An invertebrate of microscopic size.
  • military covenant — the supposed understanding that members of the armed forces and their families will be supported by the state in the event of injury or death in the course of duty
  • negative particle — a word that indicates negativity, for example 'not' in English or 'ne pas' in French
  • never looked back — If you say that someone did something and then never looked back, you mean that they were very successful from that time on.
  • nikita khrushchev — Nikita S(ergeyevich) [ni-kee-tuh sur-gey-uh-vich;; Russian nyi-kyee-tuh syir-gye-yuh-vyich] /nɪˈki tə sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ;; Russian nyɪˈkyi tə syɪrˈgyɛ yə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1971, Russian political leader: premier of the U.S.S.R. 1958–64.
  • non-controversial — of, relating to, or characteristic of controversy, or prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; polemical: a controversial book.
  • non-retroactivity — operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law.
  • over-appreciation — gratitude; thankful recognition: They showed their appreciation by giving him a gold watch.
  • over-compensation — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • over-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • overconcentration — the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
  • overreach oneself — to fail because of trying to do more than one can
  • palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
  • paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
  • photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
  • pluvius insurance — insurance against rain
  • prairie provinces — the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, which lie in the N Great Plains region of North America: the chief wheat and petroleum producing area of Canada
  • private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • private placement — a sale of an issue of securities by the issuing company directly to a limited number of investors, often only one or two large institutional investors, such as a bank or an insurance company (opposed to public offering): required to be cleared but not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • pro forma invoice — an invoice issued before an order is placed or before the goods are delivered giving all the details and the cost of the goods
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • provincial police — (in Canada) the police force of a province, esp Ontario or Quebec
  • received standard — the form of educated English spoken originally in southern England and having Received Pronunciation as a chief distinguishing feature.
  • receiving blanket — a small blanket, usually of cotton, for wrapping an infant, especially following a bath.
  • 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.
  • remittance advice — a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to let them know that their invoice has been paid
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