16-letter words containing e, v, r, t
- 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
- device control 1 — control-Q
- device control 2 — (character) (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
- device control 3 — control-S
- device control 4 — (character) (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- directed verdict — an order by a judge to a jury to find a verdict because the facts proved are indisputable.
- discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
- domestic service — the work of household servants
- 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.
- dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
- 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
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- electric vehicle — An electric vehicle is a vehicle that is driven by an electric motor which draws its current either from storage batteries or from overhead cables.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- 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.
- executive member — a member of an executive committee
- executive relief — sexual intercourse or masturbation
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- 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.
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- 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.
- free perspective — exaggeration of perspectival devices to increase the illusion of depth, used especially in stage-set painting and construction.
- galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
- gender-normative — cisgender.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- give a hard time — a period of difficulties or hardship.
- gnu archive site — (body) The main GNU FTP archive is on gnu.org but copies ("mirrors") of some or all of the files there are also held on many other computers around the world. To avoid overloading gnu.org and the Internet you should FTP files from the machine closest to yours. Look for a directory like /pub/gnu, /mirrors/gnu, /systems/gnu or /archives/gnu.
- go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
- government house — the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- government stock — stock issued by the UK or another national government
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- granger movement — a campaign for state control of railroads and grain elevators, especially in the north central states, carried on during the 1870s by members of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) a farmers' organization that had been formed for social and cultural purposes.
- gravity decanter — A gravity decanter is a vessel or stage in which two liquids of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.