19-letter words containing g, r, e, n, v, i
- moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
- national government — A national government is a government with members from more than one political party, especially one that is formed during a crisis.
- negative resistance — a characteristic of certain electronic components in which an increase in the applied voltage increases the resistance, producing a proportional decrease in current
- no shrinking violet — If you say that someone is no shrinking violet, you mean that they are not at all shy.
- not care/give a fig — If you say that someone doesn't care a fig or doesn't give a fig about something, you are emphasizing that they think it is unimportant or that they are not interested in it.
- oak-leaved geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium quercifolium, of southern Africa, having oaklike leaves with purple veins and sparse clusters of purple flowers with darker markings.
- particular negative — a proposition of the form “Some S is not P.” Symbol: O.
- pecuniary advantage — financial advantage that is dishonestly obtained by deception and that constitutes a criminal offence
- pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.
- popular sovereignty — the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.
- preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
- reciprocal leveling — leveling between two widely separated points in which observations are made in both directions to eliminate the effects of atmospheric refraction and the curvature of the earth.
- reverse engineering — (systems, product, design) The process of analysing an existing system to identify its components and their interrelationships and create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction. Reverse engineering is usually undertaken in order to redesign the system for better maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without access to the design from which it was originally produced. For example, one might take the executable code of a computer program, run it to study how it behaved with different inputs and then attempt to write a program which behaved identically (or better). An integrated circuit might also be reverse engineered by an unscrupulous company wishing to make unlicensed copies of a popular chip.
- revival of learning — the Renaissance in its relation to learning, especially in literature (Revival of Literature or Revival of Letters)
- saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
- savings certificate — a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.
- separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
- the underprivileged — those who are underprivileged
- the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
- traveling-wave tube — an electron tube used in microwave communications systems, having an electron beam directed coaxially through a wire helix to produce amplification.
- travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
- travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
- turn in their grave — If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
- vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
- very high frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 megahertz. Abbreviation: VHF.
- virginia-rail-fence — snake fence.
- watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
- wedding anniversary — the annual commemoration of a couple's marriage: a tenth wedding anniversary.
- young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998