16-letter words containing g, r, e, v
- receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
- reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
- relative bearing — the bearing of an object, relative to the heading of a vessel or aircraft.
- reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
- reverse engineer — to study or analyze (a device, as a microchip for computers) in order to learn details of design, construction, and operation, perhaps to produce a copy or an improved version.
- 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.
- reverse-engineer — to study or analyze (a device, as a microchip for computers) in order to learn details of design, construction, and operation, perhaps to produce a copy or an improved version.
- 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).
- right-hand drive — A right-hand drive vehicle has its steering wheel on the right side. It is designed to be driven in countries such as Britain, Japan, and Australia where people drive on the left side of the road.
- 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.
- 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.
- service engineer — someone who maintains and repairs equipment
- sevruga (caviar) — caviar prepared from the small, grayish or black roe of a sturgeon chiefly from the Caspian Sea
- shrinking violet — a shy, modest, or self-effacing person.
- 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.
- 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.
- strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- 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
- the virgin queen — another name for Queen Elizabeth I of England
- 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
- trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
- 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
- vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
- 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;
- 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
- vinylidene group — the bivalent group C 2 H 2 , derived from ethylene.
- virgin olive oil — oil from olives that is not processed
- virgin territory — place never visited
- virginia creeper — a climbing plant, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of the grape family, native to North America, having palmate leaves, usually with five leaflets, and bluish-black berries.
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.