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17-letter words containing l, e, v, i, t

  • cytomegaloviruses — Plural form of cytomegalovirus.
  • david livingstone — David, 1813–73, Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa.
  • deductive tableau — (tool)   A theorem proof system consisting of a table whose rows contain assertions or goals. Variables in assertions are implicitly universally quantified and variables in goals are implicitly existentially quantified. The declarative meaning of a tableau is that if every instance of every assertion is true then some instance of at least one of the goals is true.
  • deliver the goods — to produce or perform something promised or expected
  • developmentalists — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
  • discrete variable — a variable that may assume only a countable, and usually finite, number of values.
  • dissolve in tears — weep
  • domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
  • drink-drive limit — the maximum blood alcohol level permitted for someone driving a vehicle
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • electroconvulsive — Of or relating to the treatment of mental illness by the application of electric shocks to the brain.
  • electronegativity — The tendency, or a measure of the ability, of an atom or molecule to attract electrons and thus form bonds.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • executive council — (in Australia and New Zealand) a body consisting of ministers of the Crown presided over by the Governor or Governor-General that formally approves Cabinet decisions, etc
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gigaelectron volt — one billion electron-volts. Abbreviation: GeV, Gev.
  • give to the world — to publish
  • 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).
  • harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
  • hotel limo driver — A hotel limo driver is the person whose job it is to drive the hotel limo.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • infinitive clause — a clause containing an infinitive as its main or only verb form, as to speak clearly in Try to speak clearly.
  • instance variable — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, one of the variables of a class template which may have a different value for each object of that class. Instance variables hold the state of an object.
  • inter-convertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
  • intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
  • intersubjectively — (philosophy) In an intersubjective way; between or among multiple subjects.
  • interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
  • interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
  • intragovernmental — Within a government.
  • inventory control — the process of monitoring and adjusting the amount of items available, esp to avoid having too many or too few for current demand
  • invisible exports — services sold to a foreign country or countries
  • invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • juvenile diabetes — any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
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