16-letter words containing g, e, t, i, v, s
- activated sludge — a mass of aerated precipitated sewage added to untreated sewage to bring about purification by hastening decomposition by microorganisms
- anti-progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- archival storage — a method of retaining information outside of the internal memory of a computer
- autoregressively — In an autoregressive manner.
- debt forgiveness — the action or process of forgiving people their debts
- devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
- digestive juices — fluids secreted in the stomach or intestines that assist in the digestion of food
- digestive system — the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products; in mammals the system includes the alimentary canal extending from the mouth to the anus, and the hormones and enzymes assisting in digestion.
- disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
- elective surgery — when someone chooses to have an operation which is not absolutely medically necessary
- energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
- evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- 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.
- government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
- high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
- inverse graffiti — a form of street art in which a dirty wall or pavement has a template placed against it and is scrubbed until the surface is clean. This reveals an image or message which gradually fades with time.
- investment grant — a direct subsidy made by a government to a business in order to enable it to make further investment
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- legislative veto — a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, etc., of the executive branch.
- listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
- magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
- manganese violet — a moderate to strong purple color.
- moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
- negative-raising — a rule that moves a negative element out of the complement clause of certain verbs, such as think, into the main clause, as in the derivation of He doesn't think that he'll finish
- overcompensating — Present participle of overcompensate.
- parents' evening — an occasion when the parents of children at a school and their teachers come together (outside normal school hours, in the evening) in order to discuss the progress or work of the children
- 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.
- positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
- 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-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
- self-vindicating — to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone's honor.
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- 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.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- specific gravity — the ratio of the density of any substance to the density of some other substance taken as standard, water being the standard for liquids and solids, and hydrogen or air being the standard for gases.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
- vegetable slicer — a device with a sharp blade for slicing vegetables finely;
- velcro fastening — a fastening made of Velcro
- 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
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