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16-letter words containing e, l, c, t, i, v

  • overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
  • overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
  • overexcitability — to excite too much.
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
  • private-line car — a freight car owned by a company other than a railroad but operated over the tracks of railroads.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • re-entry vehicle — the section of a spacecraft or ballistic missile designed to return to earth.
  • relativistically — of or relating to relativity or relativism.
  • resistance level — a point at which the rise in price of a specific stock is arrested due to more substantial selling than buying.
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • sabbatical leave — a year or shorter period of absence for study, rest, or travel, given at intervals (orig. every seven years) as to some college teachers and now to people in other fields, at full or partial salary
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • selective strike — a partial strike against a particular area of a business or against one employer or a small number of employers in a collective bargaining situation
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • 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 elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
  • social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
  • steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
  • thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
  • travel insurance — insurance which covers losses that may be incurred while travelling, such as medical expenses, flight cancellations, lost luggage, etc
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • unconventionally — not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality: an unconventional artist; an unconventional use of material.
  • unconversational — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • 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.”.
  • vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
  • vertical tasting — a tasting of different vintages of one particular wine.
  • vestibule school — a school in an industrial establishment where new employees are given specific training in the jobs they are to perform.
  • viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
  • victimless crime — a legal offense, as prostitution or gambling, to which all participating parties have consented.
  • victorian values — qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family
  • virtual particle — an elementary particle of transitory existence that does not appear as a free particle in a particular situation but that can transmit a force from one particle to another.
  • visible spectrum — the range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that is normally visible, from 380 to 760 nm.
  • visual interface — (tool, text)   (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
  • west valley city — city in NC Utah, near Salt Lake City: pop. 109,000
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