18-letter words containing n, e, r, v
- for heaven's sake! — a mild exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc.
- forced development — the processing of underexposed photographic film to increase the image density
- foreign investment — investment from foreign countries
- forgive and forget — be reconciled
- formal equivalence — the relation that holds between two open sentences when their universal closures are materially equivalent
- general relativity — the state or fact of being relative.
- generative grammar — a linguistic theory that attempts to describe the tacit knowledge that a native speaker has of a language by establishing a set of explicit, formalized rules that specify or generate all the possible grammatical sentences of a language, while excluding all unacceptable sentences. Compare transformational grammar.
- geodetic surveying — the surveying of the earth's surface, making allowance for its curvature and giving an accurate framework for smaller-scale surveys
- get on sb's nerves — irritate
- give a person five — to greet or congratulate someone by slapping raised hands
- give someone a row — to scold someone; tell someone off
- give someone curry — to assault (a person) verbally or physically
- government deficit — A government deficit is a situation in which a government spends more money than it has.
- government housing — housing owned and managed by the federal or state government, which is rented out to tenants, esp as a form of affordable housing
- governor's council — a council chosen to assist or inform a governor on legislative or executive matters.
- grand traverse bay — an inlet of Lake Michigan on the NW of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
- gravitational lens — a heavy, dense body, as a galaxy, that lies along our line of sight to a more distant object, as a quasar, and whose gravitational field refracts the light of that object, splitting it into multiple images as seen from the earth.
- gravitational wave — (in general relativity) a propagating wave of gravitational energy produced by accelerating masses, especially during catastrophic events, as the gravitational collapse of massive stars.
- gravity escapement — an escapement, used especially in large outdoor clocks, in which the impulse is given to the pendulum by means of a weight falling through a certain distance.
- half-open interval — a set of numbers between two given numbers but including only one endpoint.
- have eyes only for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have money to burn — to have more money than one needs, so that some can be spent foolishly
- have one's ears on — the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
- heimlich manoeuvre — a technique in first aid to dislodge a foreign body in a person's windpipe by applying sudden upward pressure on the upper abdomen
- herring bone weave — a pattern consisting of adjoining vertical rows of slanting lines, any two contiguous lines forming either a V or an inverted V , used in masonry, textiles, embroidery, etc.
- hit-and-run driver — sb: leaves accident scene
- hold a reservation — If a hotel holds a reservation, it keeps a room for someone, and does not give it to someone else.
- hypersensitiveness — The state of being hypersensitive.
- in inverted commas — If you say in inverted commas after a word or phrase, you are indicating that it is inaccurate or unacceptable in some way, or that you are quoting someone else.
- in the affirmative — positively, by saying yes
- indecent behaviour — the offence of committing indecent acts
- indentured servant — a person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a period of time, usually seven years, especially during the 17th to 19th centuries. Generally, indentured servants included redemptioners, victims of religious or political persecution, persons kidnapped for the purpose, convicts, and paupers.
- individual liberty — the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.
- inductive relation — A relation R between domains D and E is inductive if for all chains d1 .. dn in D and e1 .. en in E,
- industrial vehicle — a vehicle designed for use in industry
- inferior vena cava — See under vena cava.
- intermittent fever — a malarial fever in which feverish periods lasting a few hours alternate with periods in which the temperature is normal.
- internet go server — (games, networking) (IGS) A place for Go players to meet and play via the Internet.
- intervention price — the price at which the EU intervenes to buy surplus produce
- inventory turnover — Inventory turnover is a measure of the efficiency of a company, that is calculated by dividing the cost of goods sold by average inventory.
- inverse square law — one of several laws relating two quantities such that one quantity varies inversely as the square of the other, as the law that the illumination produced on a screen by a point source varies inversely as the square of the distance of the screen from the source.
- investment manager — financial advisor
- invisible earnings — earnings from services provided rather than goods
- involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
- iverson's language — APL, which went unnamed for many years.
- junior heavyweight — a boxer weighing up to 190 pounds (85.5 kg), between light heavyweight and heavyweight.
- king james version — Authorized Version.
- language universal — a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.
- leave in the lurch — a situation at the close of various games in which the loser scores nothing or is far behind the opponent.
- legislative branch — the branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.