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17-letter words containing i, v, t, r, a

  • combine harvester — A combine harvester is a large machine which is used on farms to cut, sort, and clean grain.
  • compound interval — an interval that is greater than an octave, as a ninth or a thirteenth.
  • conservation area — In Britain, a conservation area is an area where birds and animals are protected.
  • contradistinctive — distinction by opposition or contrast: plants and animals in contradistinction to humans.
  • controversialness — The state or quality of being controversial.
  • convection heater — A convection heater is a heater that heats a room by means of hot air.
  • conversationalist — A good conversationalist is someone who talks about interesting things when they have conversations.
  • cooperative party — (in Great Britain) a political party supporting the cooperative movement and linked with the Labour Party: founded in 1917
  • cooperative store — a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • counterinitiative — An initiative opposing another initiative.
  • cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
  • cryopreservations — the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.
  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • data service unit — (communications)   (DSU or "data service unit") A device used in digital transmission for connecting a CSU (Channel Service Unit) to Data Terminal Equipment (a terminal or computer), in the same way that a modem is used for connection to an analogue medium. A DSU provides a standard interface to a user's terminal which is compatible with modems and handles such functions as signal translation, regeneration, reformatting, and timing. The transmitting portion of the DSU processeses the customers' signal into bipolar pulses suitable for transmission over the digital facility. The receiving portion of the DSU is used both to extract timing information and to regenerate mark and space information from the received bipolar signal.
  • demonstrativeness — The state or quality of being demonstrative.
  • designated driver — The designated driver in a group of people travelling together is the one who has agreed to drive, or who is insured to drive.
  • disaster recovery — (business)   (DR) Planning and implementation of procedures and facilities for use when essential systems are not available for a period long enough to have a significant impact on the business, e.g. when the head office is blown up. Disasters include natural: fire, flood, lightning, hurricane; hardware: power failure, component failure, head crash; software failure: bugs, resources; vandalism: arson, bombing, cracking, theft; data corruption or loss: human error, media failure; communications: computer network equipment, network storm, telephones; security: passwords compromised, computer virus; legal: change in legislation; personnel: unavailability of essential staff, industrial action. Companies need to plan for disaster: before: risk analysis, preventive measures, training; during: how should staff and systems respond; after: recovery measures, post mortem analysis. Hardware can usually be replaced and is usually insured. Software and data needs to be backed up off site. Alternative communication systems should be arranged in case of network failure or inaccessible premises, e.g. emergency telephone number, home working, alternative data center.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • disruptive action — action performed by protestors, workers, etc that causes the disruption of a service
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • 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 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
  • 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.
  • incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
  • inertial observer — a hypothetical observer who is not accelerated with respect to an inertial system. Newton's laws of motion and the special theory of relativity apply to the measurements which would be made by such observers
  • infantry division — a military division composed of infantry
  • infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
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