16-letter words containing l, i, v, e, t, o
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- digital envelope — (cryptography)
- diverticulectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of a diverticulum.
- dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
- eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
- enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
- environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
- environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
- event television — television programmes focusing on events that attract media attention and high ratings
- executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
- fit like a glove — fit perfectly
- flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
- glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
- go over the hill — a natural elevation of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
- golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
- governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
- green revolution — an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques.
- hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
- historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
- hyperventilation — excessively rapid and deep breathing.
- inconceivability — (uncountable) The quality of being inconceivable.
- incontravertable — Misspelling of incontrovertible.
- incontrovertible — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- incontrovertibly — not controvertible; not open to question or dispute; indisputable: absolute and incontrovertible truth.
- inconvertibility — The condition of being inconvertible.
- inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- interbehavioural — relating to or involving interbehaviour
- interconvertible — to subject to interconversion; interchange.
- interventionally — In terms of, or by means of, intervention.
- intervocalically — (phonology) Between vowels.
- italian vermouth — sweet vermouth
- javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
- kiloelectronvolt — (physics) A unit of energy equal to a thousand electron volts.
- labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
- lacto-vegetarian — a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy produce and eggs
- lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
- legislative veto — a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, etc., of the executive branch.
- letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
- levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
- level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
- lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
- live on the edge — take risks
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- manganese violet — a moderate to strong purple color.
- medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
- melodic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.