16-letter words containing m, o, v, e, l
- 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.
- selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
- 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.
- 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
- slave labor camp — labor camp (def 1).
- 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.
- unimproved value — the valuation of land for rating purposes, disregarding the value of buildings or other development
- vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
- vertebral column — spinal column.
- video journalism — the techniques, methods, etc., of preparing and broadcasting informational, social, political, and other nonfiction subjects via news and documentary programs.
- voluntary muscle — muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle, composed of parallel bundles of striated, multinucleate fibers.