17-letter words containing c, o, v, e, t, u
- account executive — an executive in an advertising agency or public relations firm who manages a client's account
- active suspension — a type of suspension in a car that is controlled by an onboard computer and improves the vehicle's roadholding so that it takes corners, accelerates, and brakes more smoothly
- active vocabulary — the total number of words a person uses in his own speech and writing
- adjective pronoun — a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in His dinner is ready.
- agent provocateur — An agent provocateur is a person who is employed by the government or the police to encourage certain groups of people to break the law, so they can arrest them or make them lose public support.
- automatic vending — selling goods by vending machines
- 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.
- coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
- coitus reservatus — the deliberate delaying or avoidance of orgasm during intercourse
- colour television — television that broadcasts in real-life colours, as opposed to black and white
- communicativeness — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
- compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
- connective tissue — Connective tissue is the substance in the bodies of animals and people which fills in the spaces between organs and connects muscles and bones.
- consumer advocate — consumerist (def 1).
- consumer-advocate — Also called consumer advocate. a person who is dedicated to protecting and promoting the welfare and rights of consumers.
- convoluted tubule — a portion of the nephron in the kidney that functions in concentrating urine and in maintaining salt, water, and sugar balance.
- counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
- counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
- countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- 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.
- cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
- cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
- disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
- electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
- executive burnout — a total loss of energy and interest and an inability to function effectively, experienced by some executives as a result of excessive demands upon their resources or chronic overwork
- executive council — (in Australia and New Zealand) a body consisting of ministers of the Crown presided over by the Governor or Governor-General that formally approves Cabinet decisions, etc
- executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
- executive officer — the second-in-command of any of certain military units
- executive session — a session of the Senate for the discussion of executive business, such as the ratification of treaties: formerly held in secret
- french revolution — the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
- 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
- macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
- microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
- muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
- non-communicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
- overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
- overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
- palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
- positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
- prerogative court — a former ecclesiastical court in England and Ireland for the trial of certain testamentary cases.
- private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- probability curve — a curve that describes the distribution of probability over the values of a random variable.
- production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
- public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
- quasi-competitive — of, pertaining to, involving, or decided by competition: competitive sports; a competitive examination.
- reproductive cell — gamete.
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