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17-letter words containing e, v, o, t, i

  • combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
  • communicativeness — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • community service — Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
  • compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
  • composite volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • composite-volcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • connective tissue — Connective tissue is the substance in the bodies of animals and people which fills in the spaces between organs and connects muscles and bones.
  • conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
  • contemplativeness — The state or quality of being contemplative.
  • context-sensitive — behaving, responding, or interpreted differently depending on context
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • convection heater — A convection heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • convective mixing — Convective mixing is the action of mixing two groups of solid particles so that they are dispersed in each other.
  • convenience store — A convenience store is a shop which sells mainly food and which is usually open until late at night.
  • convention center — a large civic building or group of buildings designed for conventions, industrial shows, and the like, having large unobstructed exhibit areas and often including conference rooms, hotel accommodations, restaurants, and other facilities.
  • convention centre — a place where conventions are held
  • conventionalities — Plural form of conventionality.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
  • counterproductive — Something that is counterproductive achieves the opposite result from the one that you want to achieve.
  • counterrevolution — A counterrevolution is a revolution that is intended to reverse the effects of a previous revolution.
  • countersubversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • creme de violette — a liqueur flavored with vanilla extract and the essential oils of violets.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cumulative voting — a system of voting in which each elector has as many votes as there are candidates in his constituency. Votes may all be cast for one candidate or distributed among several
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • dietrich von bern — Theodoric of Verona: the name of the eastern Gothic emperor Theodoric as it appears in German legends.
  • directory service — (database, networking)   A structured repository of information on people and resources within an organisation, facilitating management and communication. On a LAN or WAN the directory service identifies all aspects of the network including users, software, hardware, and the various rights and policies assigned to each. As a result applications can access information without knowing where a particular resource is physically located, and users interact oblivious to the network topology and protocols. To allow heterogeneous networks to share directory information the ITU proposed a common structure called X.500. However, its complexity and lack of seamless Internet support led to the development of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) which has continued to evolve under the aegis of the IETF. Despite its name LDAP is too closely linked to X.500 to be "lightweight".
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • disaster recovery — (business)   (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive-by shooting — an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • executive burnout — a total loss of energy and interest and an inability to function effectively, experienced by some executives as a result of excessive demands upon their resources or chronic overwork
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