18-letter words containing n, o, v, s

neovascularization — the development of new blood vessels, especially in tissues where circulation has been impaired by trauma or disease.
nervous exhaustion — extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
netscape navigator — (networking, tool, product) /Mozilla/ (Often called just "Netscape") A web browser from Netscape Communications Corporation. The first beta-test version was released free to the Internet on 13 October 1994. Netscape evolved from NCSA Mosaic (with which it shares at least one author) and runs on the X Window System under various versions of Unix, on Microsoft Windows and on the Apple Macintosh. It features integrated support for sending electronic mail and reading Usenet news, as well as RSA encryption to allow secure communications for commercial applications such as exchanging credit card numbers with net retailers. It provides multiple simultaneous interruptible text and image loading; native inline JPEG image display; display and interaction with documents as they load; multiple independent windows. Netscape was designed with 14.4 kbps modem links in mind. You can download Netscape Navigator for evaluation, or for unlimited use in academic or not-for-profit environments. You can also pay for it. Version: 1.0N. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
nominative-address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
non-conversational — able or ready to converse; given to conversation.
non-discriminative — constituting a particular quality, trait, or difference; characteristic; notable.
non-self-governing — governed by itself or having self-government, as a state or community; independent.
nondestructiveness — The quality of not being destructive.
noninterventionism — A policy of non-intervention.
noninterventionist — A proponent of non-intervention.
northern transvaal — province of South Africa, in the N part: 47,599 sq mi (123,280 sq km); pop. 5,202,000; cap. Pietersburg
nova scotia salmon — an Atlantic salmon, especially from the waters off Nova Scotia, cured in the local manner.
nueva san salvador — Santa Tecla.
offensive material — any published or broadcast content (such as articles, photographs, films, or websites) that is likely to be upsetting, insulting, or objectionable to some or most people
on everyone's lips — being much discussed
one false move and — You use one false move to introduce the very bad or serious consequences which will result if someone makes a mistake, even a very small one.
one's native heath — the place of one's birth or childhood
over-conscientious — governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
overdraft interest — interest charged on money withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
overpressurization — pressure in excess of normal atmospheric pressure, as that caused by an explosion's shock wave or created in an accelerating airplane.
overprotectiveness — unduly protective.
overrepresentation — to give too much representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately high.
overspecialization — excessive specialization, as in a field of study.
physical inventory — To carry out a physical inventory is to count all the stock on hand.
possessive pronoun — See at possessive (def 4a).
post-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
postviral syndrome — debilitating condition occurring as a sequel to viral illness
prepositional verb — a combination of verb and preposition, often with idiomatic meaning, differing from other phrasal verbs in that an object must always follow the preposition, as take after in The children take after their mother.
preservation order — In Britain, a preservation order is an official order that makes it illegal for anyone to alter or destroy something such as an old building or an area of countryside.
priority inversion — (parallel) The state of a concurrent system where a high priority task is waiting for a low priority task which is waiting for a medium priority task. The system may become unstable and crash under these circumstances. In an operating system that uses multiple tasks, each task (or context) may be given a priority. These priorities help the scheduler decide which task to run next. Consider tasks, L, M, and H, with priorities Low, Medium, and High. M is running and H is blocked waiting for some resource that is held by L. So long as any task with a priority higher than L is runable, it will prevent task L, and thus task H, from running. Priority inversion is generally considered either as a high-level design failure or an implementation issue to be taken into account depending on who is talking. Most operating systems have methods in place to prevent or take inversion into account. Priority inheritance is one method. The most public instance of priority inversion is the repeated 'fail-safe' rebooting of the Mars Pathfinder. base station ('Sagan Memorial Station').
productivity bonus — an extra payment made to workers for being more productive or yielding more favourable results than normal
progressive coding — (graphics, file format, algorithm) (Or "interlacing") An aspect of a graphics storage format or transmission algorithm that treats bitmap image data non-sequentially in such a way that later data adds progressively greater resolution to an already full-size image. This contrasts with sequential coding. Progressive coding is useful when an image is being sent across a slow communications channel, such as the Internet, as the low-resolution image may be sufficient to allow the user to decide not to wait for the rest of the file to be received. In an interlaced GIF89 image, the pixels in a row are stored sequentially but the rows are stored in interlaced order, e.g. 0, 8, 4, 12, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15. Each vertical scan adds rows in the middle of the gaps left by the previous one. Interlacing is also supported by other formats. JPEG supports a functionally similar concept known as Progressive JPEG. [How does the algorithm differ?] See also progressive/sequential coding.
progressive dinner — a dinner party in which each successive course is prepared and eaten at the residence of a different participant.
provision merchant — a person or company in the business of retailing food and other provisions
psychogalvanometer — a type of galvanometer for detecting and measuring psychogalvanic currents.
recursive function — a function defined in terms of the repeated application of a number of simpler functions to their own values, by specifying a base clause and a recursion formula
reduction division — the first division of meiosis in which the number of chromosomes is reduced to half the original number.
reverse angle shot — Movies. reverse shot.
reversionary bonus — a bonus added to the sum payable on death or at the maturity of a with-profits assurance policy
revolutionary wars — American Revolution.
run one's eye over — to glance at hurriedly
russian revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
school-leaving age — the minimum age that children are legally allowed to leave school - in Britain and the United States, this is 16
seasonal variation — season-related variation
second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
secondary deviance — deviant behavior that results from being publicly labeled as deviant and treated as an outsider.
secondary recovery — extraction of oil or natural gas under artificially induced pressure after the natural flow has ceased.
selective abortion — the aborting of particular embryos for medical or social reasons
sesto san giovanni — a city in Lombardy, N Italy: a suburb of Milan.
seven-league boots — mythical boots that allowed the wearer to travel seven leagues (a former unit of measurement), ie a great length, at each step

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