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19-letter words containing l, i, v, e

  • glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
  • governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
  • government-in-exile — a government temporarily moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to establish that government in their native country after its liberation.
  • gravitational field — the attractive effect, considered as extending throughout space, of matter on other matter.
  • half wave rectifier — A half wave rectifier removes the negative component of an alternating signal leaving only the positive part.
  • half-wave rectifier — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
  • have half a mind to — to have the intention of
  • heavy goods vehicle — a large road vehicle for carrying goods
  • hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
  • high-level language — a problem-oriented programming language, as COBOL, FORTRAN, or PL/1, that uses English-like statements and symbols to create sequences of computer instructions and identify memory locations, rather than the machine-specific individual instruction codes and numerical addresses employed by machine language.
  • hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
  • imperative language — (language)   Any programming language that specifies explicit manipulation of the state of the computer system, not to be confused with a procedural language, which specifies an explicit sequence of steps to perform. An example of an imperative (but non-procedural) language is a data manipulation language for a relational database management system. This specifies changes to the database but does not necessarily require anyone to specify a sequence of steps. Both contrast with declarative languages, which specify neither explicit state manipulation nor a sequence of steps.
  • incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
  • indeterminate vowel — schwa.
  • internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
  • interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
  • intervertebral disc — any of the cartilaginous discs between individual vertebrae, acting as shock absorbers
  • intervertebral disk — the plate of fibrocartilage between the bodies of adjacent vertebrae.
  • juvenile delinquent — a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts, as vandalism or violence.
  • lady of the evening — a prostitute.
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • level of attainment — one of ten groupings, each with its own attainment criteria based on pupil age and ability, within which a pupil is assessed
  • level playing field — a state of equality; an equal opportunity.
  • leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
  • lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
  • lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
  • liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
  • live one's own life — If you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's advice or interference.
  • locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • long live/ long may — You use long live and long may in expressions such as 'long live the Queen' and 'long may it continue' to express your support for someone or something and your hope that they will live or last a long time.
  • lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
  • love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
  • male chauvinist pig — male chauvinist.
  • massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
  • memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
  • mid-autumn festival — a Chinese festival that is held to celebrate the end of the summer harvest, when the crops have been gathered.
  • mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
  • military government — a government in defeated territory administered by the military commander of a conquering nation.
  • mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
  • multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
  • mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
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