17-letter words containing d, e, l, v, s
- adverse selection — Adverse selection is a term used to describe the tendency of those in dangerous jobs or with high-risk lifestyles to want to take out life insurance.
- alexander severus — a.d. 208?-235; Rom. emperor ( a.d. 222-235)
- bell-shaped curve — bell curve
- cleveland heights — city in NE Ohio: suburb of Cleveland: pop. 50,000
- coastguard vessel — a ship used by the coastguard
- david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
- deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
- denial of service — a deliberate interruption in access to a computer system or network, esp by using multiple computers to generate an unmanageable volume of traffic (distributed denial of service)
- denial-of-service — pertaining to or being an incident in which a computer or computer network is disabled, disrupting access or service: a website hit by a denial-of-service attack; unintentional denial-of-service problems.
- developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- devil's food cake — a rich chocolate cake
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
- dissolve in tears — weep
- domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
- financial adviser — A financial adviser is someone whose job it is to advise people about financial products and services.
- floppy disk drive — disk drive
- gross value added — the aggregate of values added throughout an economy, which represents that economy's gross domestic product
- household cavalry — (in Britain) cavalry units forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- invisible mending — any form of repair, esp to clothing, in which the aim is to make the finished repair work undetectable
- juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- laccadive islands — group of islands in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: part of Lakshadweep territory
- lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- livingstone daisy — a gardener's name for various species of Mesembryanthemum, esp M. criniflorum, grown as garden annuals (though several are perennial) for their brightly coloured showy flowers: family Aizoaceae
- movable-do system — a system of solmization in which the syllable do can be transposed to the tonic of any key.
- old wives' summer — a period of fine, summerlike weather occurring in Europe in autumn.
- production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
- saved by the bell — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- self-belay device — (in climbing) a device used to pay out a safety rope as required
- seven deadly sins — Christianity: worst vices
- shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
- side-valve engine — a type of internal-combustion engine in which the inlet and exhaust valves are in the cylinder block at the side of the pistons
- silver star medal — a U.S. military decoration in the form of a bronze star with a small silver star at the center, awarded for gallantry in action
- sleep deprivation — a condition in which you have not had enough sleep
- sliding vane pump — A sliding vane pump is a pump in which the vanes (=flat parts) are the main sealing element between the suction and discharge areas.
- small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- small-leaved lime — Tilia cordata: a tiliaceous deciduous tree of the N temperate genus Tilia, having heart-shaped leaves and small fragrant yellowish flowers: cultivated for timber and as shade trees
- vaginal discharge — emission from the female genitalia
- valetudinarianism — the state, condition, or habits of a valetudinarian.
- van diemen's land — former name of Tasmania.
- vascular cylinder — stele (sense 3)
- veiltail goldfish — an artificially bred, indoor variety of goldfish, usually golden or calico and of a spheroid shape, having a fully divided, drooping tail fin exceeding the body in length.
- venereal diseases — sexually transmitted disease. Abbreviation: VD.
- vice-presidential — relating to a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- visible radiation — electromagnetic radiation that causes the sensation of sight; light. It has wavelengths between about 380 and 780 nanometres
- visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
- well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
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