17-letter words containing c, o, v, e, t
- interactive video — a computer-optical disk system that displays still or moving video images as determined by computer program and user needs
- interconnectivity — The state or quality of being interconnected.
- introspectiveness — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- inventory control — the process of monitoring and adjusting the amount of items available, esp to avoid having too many or too few for current demand
- inverse cotangent — arc cotangent.
- inversion casting — casting from an electric furnace inverted over the mold.
- investment income — income arising from business investments
- kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
- kvatro telecom as — (company) The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
- level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
- locomotive driver — an engine driver
- locomotive engine — a self-propelled engine driven by steam, electricity, or diesel power and used for drawing trains along railway tracks
- low-velocity zone — a layer or zone in the earth in which the velocity of seismic waves is slightly lower than in the layers above and below. The asthenosphere is thought to be such a zone
- 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.
- method invocation — (programming) In object-oriented programming, the way the program looks up the right code to run when a method with a given name is called ("invoked") on an object. The method is first looked for in the object's class, then that class's superclass and so on up the class hierarchy until a method with the given name is found (the name is "resolved"). Generally, method lookup cannot be performed at compile time because the object's class is not known until run time. This is the case for an object method whereas a class method is just an ordinary function (that is bundled with a given class) and can be resolved at compile time (or load time in the case of a dynamically loaded library).
- 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
- muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
- naming convention — 1. (programming) variable naming convention. 2. (networking) Universal Naming Convention.
- national covenant — an agreement (1638) among Scottish Presbyterians to uphold their faith in Scotland.
- non-communicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
- 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.
- nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
- once over lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
- once-over-lightly — a hasty or superficial treatment, look, examination, etc.; once-over: The maid gave the room the once-over-lightly.
- 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.
- overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
- overhead camshaft — a camshaft in an automotive engine that is located in the cylinder head over the engine block rather than in the block. Abbreviation: OHC.
- 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.
- paleoconservative — a person advocating an older, traditional type of conservatism, especially in politics.
- particle velocity — the velocity of a point in a medium that is undergoing wave motion.
- pebbleweave cloth — an irregularly textured material made from twisted yarn
- photoreactivation — a process that repairs DNA damaged by ultraviolet light using an enzyme that requires visible light.
- photovoltaic cell — a photocell in which an electromotive force is generated by a photovoltaic effect.
- plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
- polyvinyl acetate — a colorless, odorless, nontoxic, transparent, thermoplastic, water-insoluble resin used as an adhesive in certain paints and as an intermediate in the synthesis of polyvinyl acetal and polyvinyl alcohol.
- positive electron — positron.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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