16-letter words containing g, a, v, o
- moving violation — any of various traffic violations committed while a vehicle is in motion, as speeding, driving through a red light, or going the wrong direction on a one-way street.
- national savings — a borrowing programme set up by the UK government, aimed esp at retail investors, and providing bonds, saving certificates, etc
- objective danger — a danger, such as a stone fall or avalanche, to which climbing skill is irrelevant
- on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
- over-imaginative — characterized by or bearing evidence of imagination: an imaginative tale.
- overcapitalizing — Present participle of overcapitalize.
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
- 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.
- progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
- provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- savings and loan — type of savings bank
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- standing ovation — rising to applaud
- tarragon vinegar — a white vinegar flavoured with the herb tarragon, used in cooking, esp in salad dressings
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- travelling clock — a small clock taken by someone who is travelling
- vapor channeling — Vapor channeling exists when vapor flow is distributed in an unequal way in a distillation vessel or stage.
- vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- vegetable oyster — salsify.
- 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
- virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
- virginia tobacco — a type of flue-cured tobacco grown originally in Virginia
- yablonovyy range — a mountain range in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, E of Lake Baikal.