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16-letter words containing g, a, v, e, l

  • overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • pelagic division — the biogeographic realm or zone that comprises the open seas and oceans, including water of all depths.
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
  • privileged altar — an altar at which a plenary indulgence for a departed soul may be granted upon celebration of a Mass.
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
  • relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
  • revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
  • scavenger beetle — any beetle of the mostly aquatic family Hydrophilidae, having clubbed antennae and long palps, and usually feeding on decaying vegetation
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • self-advertising — the act or practice of calling public attention to one's product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers and magazines, over radio or television, on billboards, etc.: to get more customers by advertising.
  • self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
  • self-vulcanizing — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
  • slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
  • trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
  • ungava peninsula — a peninsula in NW Ungava region, in N Quebec, in E Canada.
  • vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
  • vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
  • vegetable butter — any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.
  • vegetable cellar — a usually underground storage room where fresh vegetables can be stored at normally cool temperatures for later use.
  • vegetable garden — allotment
  • vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
  • vegetable oyster — salsify.
  • vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
  • vegetable sponge — loofah (def 2).
  • vegetable tallow — any of several tallowlike substances of vegetable origin, used in making candles, soap, etc., and as lubricants.
  • velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • verruca vulgaris — the common wart.
  • 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.
  • viceregal assent — the formal signing of an act of parliament by a governor general, by which it becomes law
  • visual magnitude — Astronomy. magnitude (def 5a).
  • visual-magnitude — size; extent; dimensions: to determine the magnitude of an angle.
  • yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.
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