16-letter words containing d, e, c, i, v
- revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
- 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.
- second adventist — Adventist (def 1).
- self-deliverance — suicide.
- self-descriptive — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- self-destructive — harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
- service industry — business providing a service
- service provider — company: provides internet
- special delivery — (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
- state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
- vancouver island — an island of SW Canada, off the SW coast of British Columbia: separated from the Canadian mainland by the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Sound, and from the US mainland by Juan de Fuca Strait; the largest island off the W coast of North America. Chief town: Victoria. Pop: 706 243 (2001). Area: 32 137 sq km (12 408 sq miles)
- vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
- veni, vidi, vici — I came, I saw, I conquered
- verbal adjective — an adjective derived from a verb, as, in English, smiling in smiling eyes, or, in Greek, batós “going,” “moving,” derived from baínen “to go,” “to move.”.
- video-conference — A video-conference is a meeting that takes place using video conferencing.
- videodisc player — an electronic device for playing videodiscs through a television set.
- viewing audience — the audience reached by television
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
- vulcanized fiber — a leatherlike substance made by compression of layers of paper or cloth that have been treated with acids or zinc chloride, used chiefly for electric insulation.