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18-letter words containing e, l, v, n, t

  • ethical investment — an investment in a company whose activities or products are not considered by the investor to be unethical
  • euglenoid movement — the expansion and contraction of the cell body of various flagellates
  • evolution strategy — (ES) A kind of evolutionary algorithm where individuals (potential solutions) are encoded by a set of real-valued "object variables" (the individual's "genome"). For each object variable an individual also has a "strategy variable" which determines the degree of mutation to be applied to the corresponding object variable. The strategy variables also mutate, allowing the rate of mutation of the object variables to vary. An ES is characterised by the population size, the number of offspring produced in each generation and whether the new population is selected from parents and offspring or only from the offspring. ES were invented in 1963 by Ingo Rechenberg, Hans-Paul Schwefel at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) while searching for the optimal shapes of bodies in a flow.
  • exclusive brethren — one of the two main divisions of the Plymouth Brethren, which, in contrast to the Open Brethren, restricts its members' contacts with those outside the sect
  • federal government — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • forced development — the processing of underexposed photographic film to increase the image density
  • general relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
  • gravitational lens — a heavy, dense body, as a galaxy, that lies along our line of sight to a more distant object, as a quasar, and whose gravitational field refracts the light of that object, splitting it into multiple images as seen from the earth.
  • gravitational wave — (in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, especially during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars.
  • gulf saint vincent — a shallow inlet of SE South Australia, to the east of the Yorke Peninsula: salt industry
  • half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
  • hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
  • homelands movement — the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands
  • independent living — a living arrangement for disabled people and others with special needs, usually in their own home, affording them as much independence and autonomy as possible.
  • individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
  • inductive coupling — the coupling between two electric circuits through inductances linked by a common changing magnetic field.
  • inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
  • industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
  • invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
  • investment analyst — a specialist in forecasting the prices of stocks and shares
  • involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
  • leave in the lurch — a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
  • legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
  • lenient evaluation — (reduction)   An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub, FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions. Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager evaluation strategy.
  • limestone pavement — a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks
  • limited government — confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed: a limited space; limited resources.
  • limiting adjective — (in English and some other languages) one of a small group of adjectives that modify the nouns to which they are applied by restricting rather than describing or qualifying. This, some, and certain are limiting adjectives.
  • linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.
  • live by one's wits — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • lunitidal interval — the period of time between the moon's transit and the next high lunar tide.
  • mental reservation — an unexpressed doubt or qualification about a situation, person, etc.
  • microenvironmental — Pertaining to a microenvironment.
  • montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
  • natural convection — Natural convection is the loss of heat from a hot solid or liquid into air which is not artificially agitated.
  • naval architecture — the science of designing ships and other waterborne craft.
  • negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
  • neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
  • neurodevelopmental — Of or pertaining to the development of neurological pathways in the brain.
  • non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
  • nonvolatile memory — computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered, for example read-only memory
  • northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
  • not to have a clue — to be completely baffled
  • october revolution — Russian Revolution (def 2).
  • offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
  • operation overlord — the codename for the Allied invasion (June 1944) of northern France
  • oral contraceptive — birth-control pill.
  • over the long term — in the future
  • over-extrapolation — to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
  • overcapitalization — The state of being overcapitalized.
  • overgeneralization — the act or process of overgeneralizing.
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