16-letter words containing h, p, v, e
- adhesive plaster — adhesive tape, especially in wide sheets.
- adjective phrase — An adjective phrase or adjectival phrase is a group of words based on an adjective, such as 'very nice' or 'interested in football.' An adjective phrase can also consist simply of an adjective.
- adverbial phrase — a group of two or more words that function together as an adverb, as the phrase in a minute in I'll be with you in a minute.
- all over the map — changeable
- alpha conversion — (theory) In lambda-calculus and reduction, the renaming of a formal parameter in a lambda abstraction. This does not change the meaning of the abstraction. For example: \ x . x+1 <--> \ y . y+1 If the actual argument to a lambda abstraction contains instances of the abstraction's formal parameter then it is necessary to rename the parameter before applying the abstraction to avoid name capture.
- antihypertensive — able to inhibit or control hypertension
- apprehensiveness — uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.
- aversion therapy — a method of suppressing an undesirable habit, such as excessive smoking, by causing the subject to associate an unpleasant effect, such as an electric shock or nausea, with the habit
- avian diphtheria — a virus disease of chickens and other birds characterized by warty excrescences on the comb and wattles, and often by diphtherialike changes in the mucous membranes of the head.
- behavior pattern — a recurrent way of acting by an individual or group toward a given object or in a given situation.
- behavior therapy — therapy employing behavior modification
- caregiver speech — baby talk (def 2).
- cepheid variable — any of a class of variable stars with regular cycles of variations in luminosity (most ranging from three to fifty days). There is a relationship between the periods of variation and the absolute magnitudes, which is used for measuring the distance of such stars
- chemoreceptivity — The ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus.
- chinese pavilion — crescent (def 6).
- chinese-pavilion — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- chuvash republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga valley: generally low-lying with undulating plains and large areas of forest. Capital: Cheboksary. Pop: 1 313 900 (2002). Area: 18 300 sq km (7064 sq miles)
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- give sb the slip — If you give someone the slip, you escape from them when they are following you or watching you.
- have the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
- hyperinnervation — the act of innervating; state of being innervated.
- hypersensitivity — excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism.
- hypervariability — apt or liable to vary or change; changeable: variable weather; variable moods.
- hypervascularity — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hyperventilating — Present participle of hyperventilate.
- hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- live in the past — If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.
- liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
- mechanoreceptive — Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch.
- north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
- peruvian rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- philoprogenitive — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
- photosensitivity — the quality of being photosensitive.
- plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
- preemptive right — a privilege given to an existing shareholder to buy a portion of a new stock issue at the offering price on a pro-rata per-share basis.
- presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
- primitive church — the early Christian church, especially in reference to its earliest form and organization.
- pyruvic aldehyde — a yellow, liquid compound, C 3 H 4 O 2 , containing both an aldehyde and a ketone group, usually obtained in a polymeric form: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
- scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- splanchnic nerve — Anatomy. any of several nerves to the viscera and blood vessels of the chest and pelvic areas.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the heavens open — If the heavens open, it suddenly starts raining very heavily.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
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