16-letter words containing c, o, r, v, e, t
- creative tension — a situation where disagreement or discord ultimately gives rise to better ideas or outcomes
- crime prevention — official and police policies to prevent crime
- cryopreservation — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
- customer service — Customer service refers to the way that companies behave towards their customers, for example how well they treat them.
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
- delta conversion — delta reduction
- device control 1 — control-Q
- device control 2 — (character) (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
- device control 3 — control-S
- device control 4 — (character) (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- domestic service — the work of household servants
- driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
- east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
- evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
- inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
- junior executive — a trainee position in a business or organization
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
- level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
- macroenvironment — (biology) The large-scale and long-term environment and conditions that affect an organism.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- majority verdict — a decision supported by more than half, but not all, the jury
- mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- microenvironment — the environment of a small area or of a particular organism; microhabitat.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.