17-letter words containing m, v
- dispersive medium — a substance in which waves of different frequencies travel at different speeds
- domestic violence — physical abuse in the home
- drink-drive limit — the maximum blood alcohol level permitted for someone driving a vehicle
- emergency service — a department within a bigger organization that deals with emergencies
- employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
- environmentalists — Plural form of environmentalist.
- executive mansion — the White House (in Washington, D.C.), official home of the President of the U.S.
- explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
- fair market value — The fair market value of an asset is what a willing buyer would pay a willing seller for it on the open market.
- female chauvinist — a female who patronizes, disparages, or otherwise denigrates males in the belief that they are inferior to females and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
- female-chauvinist — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- first triumvirate — the political alliance of Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey, formed in 60 bc
- for love or money — If you cannot or will not do something for love or money, you are completely unable to do it or you do not intend to do it.
- formative element — a morpheme that serves as an affix, not as a base, or root, in word formation.
- full-motion video — (video) (FMV) Any kind of video that is theoretically capable of changing the entire content on the screen fast enough that the transitions are not obvious to the human eye, i.e. about 24 times a second or more. In practise most video encoding relies on the fact that in most video there is relatively little change from one frame to the next. This allows for compression of the video data. The term is used, chiefly in computer games, in contrast to techniques such as the use of sprites that move against a more-or-less fixed background.
- giovanni demedici — Catherine de', Catherine de Médicis.
- give someone hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- glove compartment — a compartment in the dashboard of an automobile for storing small items.
- government action — intervention by a government, esp to influence financial markets
- government broker — the government-appointed stockbroker whose job is to sell government securities on the stock exchange, as instructed by the Bank of England
- gustavo a. madero — official name of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
- harmonic interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- heavy mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- heimlich maneuver — an emergency rescue procedure for application to someone choking on a foreign object, in which the rescuer places a fist between the victim's lower ribs or upper abdomen from behind and exerts sudden pressure in the form of thrusts of sufficient force to help eject the object from the windpipe.
- hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
- heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
- home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
- homovanillic acid — the end product of dopamine metabolism, C 9 H 10 O 4 , found in human urine.
- hotel limo driver — A hotel limo driver is the person whose job it is to drive the hotel limo.
- hydrothermal vent — an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2).
- hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
- immediate version — child version
- immunosuppressive — capable of causing immunosuppression: immunosuppressive drugs.
- implosive-therapy — a form of behavior therapy involving intensive recollection and review of anxiety-producing situations or events in a patient's life in an attempt to develop more appropriate responses to similar situations in the future.
- improvement grant — a sum of money provided by a government, local authority, or public fund to finance the amelioration of a building, area of land, etc
- improvisationally — In an improvisational way.
- incomprehensively — In an incomprehensive manner.
- incremental value — increased value measured on an index or scale
- individual medley — a race in which the total distance is either divided into three equal portions, in which each swimmer uses the backstroke for the first portion, the breaststroke for the second portion, and the freestyle for the third, or the total distance is divided into four equal portions, in which each swimmer uses the butterfly stroke for the first portion and then the other strokes used follow the same pattern as in the three-part medley. Compare medley relay (def 2).
- infinitive marker — a word or affix occurring with the verb stem in the infinitive, such as to in to make
- intensive farming — battery rearing of animals
- intergovernmental — involving two or more governments or levels of government.
- interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
- intragovernmental — Within a government.
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- investment income — income arising from business investments
- invincible armada — Armada.
- invisible imports — imports of services rather than goods
- invisible mending — any form of repair, esp to clothing, in which the aim is to make the finished repair work undetectable
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.