19-letter words containing e, v, u
- distinctive feature — a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
- dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
- earthquake coverage — Earthquake coverage is insurance coverage for damage caused by earthquakes.
- ebola virus disease — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- ecumenical movement — See under ecumenical (def 4).
- educational adviser — a person who provides advice and training to teachers about teaching methods and educational policies
- electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
- environmental audit — the systematic examination of an organization's interaction with the environment, to assess the success of its conservation or antipollution programme
- evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
- executive agreement — an agreement made between the US President and the head of a foreign state, having the effect of a treaty
- executive committee — the executive committee or board of an organization is a committee within that organization which has the authority to make decisions and ensures that these decisions are carried out
- executive president — a president in certain systems of government who possesses wide powers
- executive privilege — Executive privilege is the right that a member of the executive branch of government has to withhold information about matters that they consider to be confidential.
- executive secretary — supports executives or departments
- eye make-up remover — a product used to remove cosmetics such as mascara and eyeliner
- facultative apomict — a plant that can reproduce sexually or asexually.
- february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
- february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
- fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
- figurative language — language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
- follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
- full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
- geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
- give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
- glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
- grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
- haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
- haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
- have one's blood up — to be or cause to be angry or inflamed
- have the last laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
- hemidemisemiquavers — Plural form of hemidemisemiquaver.
- henry david thoreau — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
- herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
- high-level language — a problem-oriented programming language, as COBOL, FORTRAN, or PL/1, that uses English-like statements and symbols to create sequences of computer instructions and identify memory locations, rather than the machine-specific individual instruction codes and numerical addresses employed by machine language.
- housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
- hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
- imperative language — (language) Any programming language that specifies explicit manipulation of the state of the computer system, not to be confused with a procedural language, which specifies an explicit sequence of steps to perform. An example of an imperative (but non-procedural) language is a data manipulation language for a relational database management system. This specifies changes to the database but does not necessarily require anyone to specify a sequence of steps. Both contrast with declarative languages, which specify neither explicit state manipulation nor a sequence of steps.
- inductive inference — grammatical inference
- inductive reactance — the opposition of inductance to alternating current, equal to the product of the angular frequency of the current times the self-inductance. Symbol: X L.
- input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
- intensive care unit — the specialized center in a hospital where intensive care is provided. Abbreviation: ICU.
- intrauterine device — any small, mechanical device for semipermanent insertion into the uterus as a contraceptive. Abbreviation: IUD.
- investment compound — investment (def 11).
- it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
- juvenile delinquent — a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts, as vandalism or violence.
- legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
- leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
- lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
- lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
- liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.