16-letter words containing m, e, l, v
- mental defective — a person who suffers from a learning disability or from some form of mental illness
- microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
- military service — compulsory period spent in the army
- molecular volume — the volume occupied by one mole of a substance
- multiplicatively — tending to multiply or increase.
- neurodevelopment — The development of the nervous system during the life of an organism.
- nevado de colima — a volcano in SW Mexico, in Jalisco state. Height: 4339 m (14 235 ft)
- non-accumulative — tending to accumulate or arising from accumulation; cumulative.
- oculomotor nerve — either one of the third pair of cranial nerves, consisting chiefly of motor fibers that innervate most of the muscles of the eyeball.
- one/a false move — If you say that one false move will cause a disaster, you mean that you or someone else must not make any mistakes because the situation is so difficult or dangerous.
- over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
- over-sentimental — expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
- overaccumulation — Accumulation of too much.
- overall majority — If a political party wins an overall majority in an election or vote, they get more votes than the total number of votes or seats won by all their opponents.
- overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
- overdramatically — In an overdramatic manner.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
- 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.
- salivary amylase — an enzyme in the saliva that converts starch into dextrin and maltose.
- selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
- self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- service families — families which have a member serving in the armed forces
- 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).
- 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
- shuttle movement — the movement of a component from one place to another and back to its original position
- 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).
- slave-making ant — an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slaves.
- steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
- thermionic valve — vacuum tube.
- to move a muscle — If you say that someone did not move a muscle, you mean that they stayed absolutely still.
- to speak volumes — If something such as an action speaks volumes about a person or thing, it gives you a lot of information about them.
- 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.
- 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
- victimless crime — a legal offense, as prostitution or gambling, to which all participating parties have consented.
- video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.