16-letter words containing m, a, r, v
- redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
- reflexive domain — A domain satisfying a recursive domain equation. E.g. D = D -> D.
- relative maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- relative minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- relative-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- relatively prime — (mathematics) Having no common divisors (greater than 1). Two numbers are said to be relativey prime if there is no number greater than unity that divides both of them evenly. For example, 10 and 33 are relativly prime. 15 and 33 are not relatively prime, since 3 is a divisor of both.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- same-day service — (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
- semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
- semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
- severnaya zemlya — an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, between the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea, in N Russia. 14,175 sq. mi. (36,712 sq. km).
- shaker and mover — mover and shaker
- shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
- silver medallist — a competitor who comes second in a contest or race and is awarded a medal of silver
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- trigeminal nerve — of or relating to the trigeminal nerve.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- valet de chambre — valet (def 1).
- valles marineris — a canyon on Mars, 3100 miles (5000 km) in length, named after the Mariner spacecraft.
- vapor combustion — Vapor combustion is a closed burn system used for treating liquid waste which contains volatile organic compounds.
- vascular cambium — cambium.
- vectorcardiogram — the graphic record produced by vectorcardiography.
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- vertical farming — a proposed system of growing crops in urban areas using specially designed skyscrapers
- video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
- visiting fireman — an influential person accorded special treatment while visiting an organization, industry, city, etc.
- vitamin-enriched — having had vitamins added
- voice of america — the division of the United States Information Agency that broadcasts daily programs of news and entertainment throughout the world. Abbreviation: VOA, V.O.A.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.
- yeoman's service — good, useful, or workmanlike service: His trusty sword did him yeoman's service.