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16-letter words containing g, o, v, e

  • lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • legislative veto — a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, etc., of the executive branch.
  • leveraged buyout — the purchase of a company with borrowed money, using the company's assets as collateral, and often discharging the debt and realizing a profit by liquidating the company. Abbreviation: LBO.
  • live on the edge — take risks
  • local government — the administration of the civic affairs of a city, town, or district by its inhabitants rather than by the state or country at large.
  • 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.
  • mangrove snapper — gray snapper.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • north ridgeville — a town in N Ohio.
  • 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-controlling — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • 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.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • 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.
  • philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
  • 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.
  • progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format)   (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • 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
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
  • sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
  • 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
  • time sovereignty — control by an employee of the use of his or her time, involving flexibility of working hours
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • 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).
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