17-letter words containing i, t, v

fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
fan-assisted oven — an electric oven in which a fan circulates the air and which uses both top and bottom heat
female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
fluvioterrestrial — (of animals) able to live in rivers and on land
forced convection — Forced convection is convection in which the movement of fluid does not happen naturally but is helped by a device such as a fan or pump.
formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
fouquier-tinville — Antoine Quentin [ahn-twan kahn-tan] /ɑ̃ˈtwan kɑ̃ˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1747?–95, French revolutionist: prosecutor during the Reign of Terror.
french revolution — the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
full-motion video — (video) (FMV) Any kind of video that is theoretically capable of changing the entire content on the screen fast enough that the transitions are not obvious to the human eye, i.e. about 24 times a second or more. In practise most video encoding relies on the fact that in most video there is relatively little change from one frame to the next. This allows for compression of the video data. The term is used, chiefly in computer games, in contrast to techniques such as the use of sprites that move against a more-or-less fixed background.
geneva convention — one of a series of international agreements, first made in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1864, establishing rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, the wounded, and the dead in battle.
gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
give free rein to — Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
give satisfaction — to satisfy
give the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
give the go-ahead — authorize sb to do sth
give to the world — to publish
give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
great rift valley — a series of rift valleys running from N to S, from the Jordan Valley in SW Asia to Mozambique in SE Africa.
great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
grooved fricative — a fricative, as (s), in which air is channeled through a groove along the center of the tongue.
harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
have a reputation — to be known or notorious, esp for promiscuity, excessive drinking, or the like
have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
have on the brain — If someone has something on the brain, they keep thinking about it.
head of the river — any of various annual rowing regattas held on particular rivers
hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
hit over the head — to strike on the head
home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
hotel limo driver — A hotel limo driver is the person whose job it is to drive the hotel limo.
hyperconnectivity — Hyperconnectivity is the use of many systems and devices so that you are always connected to social networks and other sources of information.
i'd give anything — You use give in phrases such as I'd give anything, I'd give my right arm, and what wouldn't I give to emphasize that you are very eager to do or have something.
immediate version — child version
implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
in seventh heaven — ecstatically happy
in the event that — if it happens that
inclusive fitness — the fitness of an individual organism as measured in terms of the survival and reproductive success of its kin, each relative being valued according to the probability of shared genetic information, an offspring or sibling having a value of 50 percent and a cousin 25 percent.
incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
indirect evidence — circumstantial evidence.
indistinctiveness — The quality of being indistinctive.
individualisation — Alternative spelling of individualization.
individualization — to make individual or distinctive; give an individual or distinctive character to.

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