16-letter words containing e, a, v
- davidson current — a winter countercurrent that flows N along the W coast of the U.S.
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
- delta conversion — delta reduction
- development area — (in Britain) an area suffering from high unemployment and economic depression, because of the decline of its main industries, that is given government help to establish new industries
- development bank — A development bank is a bank that provides money for projects in poor countries or areas.
- developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
- developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
- developmentation — (proscribed, chiefly, US, and, humorous) Development.
- devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- devolatilization — Devolatilization is the removal of volatile substances from a solid.
- devonshire cream — clotted cream.
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- 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.
- drumhead service — a religious service attended by members of a military unit while in the field
- eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
- east coast fever — a disease of cattle, endemic in east and central Africa, caused by a parasite, Theileria parva, that is carried by ticks
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
- environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
- evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- ex-dividend date — The ex-dividend date is the date after the declaration of a dividend on which the buyer of a stock is not entitled to receive the next dividend payment.
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
- filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
- first derivative — the derivative of a function: Velocity is the first derivative of distance with respect to time.
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
- fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
- franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
- gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
- germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.