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17-letter words containing n, u, e, v, o

  • juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • many-valued logic — the study of logical systems in which the truth-values that a proposition may have are not restricted to two, representing only truth and falsity
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • muscae volitantes — floater (def 6).
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • neurodegenerative — Resulting in or characterized by degeneration of the nervous system, especially the neurons in the brain.
  • neurotransmissive — Relating to neurotransmission.
  • non-argumentative — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • non-authoritative — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • non-communicative — inclined to communicate or impart; talkative: He isn't feeling very communicative today.
  • nonproductiveness — The quality of being nonproductive.
  • number seven iron — pitcher2 (def 3).
  • odds-on favourite — a person, team, horse, etc that is regarded as the most likely to win a competition
  • overconscientious — Excessively conscientious.
  • overnight success — sth or sb suddenly popular
  • oversquare engine — An oversquare engine is an engine which has a cylinder bore that is larger than its stroke.
  • palace revolution — a challenge to or overthrow of a sovereign or other leader by members of the ruling family or group.
  • period-revolution — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
  • positive eugenics — the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)
  • pre-revolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • previous question — a move that a vote be taken at once on a main question, used especially as a means of cutting off further debate.
  • private education — education provided by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • public television — a type of noncommercial, usually educational, television programming funded by the government, grants, viewers, and corporations. Compare educational television.
  • punitive taxation — a form of taxation that is very severe and that people find very difficult to pay
  • push the envelope — a flat paper container, as for a letter or thin package, usually having a gummed flap or other means of closure.
  • put on the gloves — to box
  • quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • reflexive pronoun — A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun such as 'myself' which refers back to the subject of a sentence or clause. For example, in the sentence 'He made himself a cup of tea', the reflexive pronoun 'himself' refers back to 'he'.
  • revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
  • revolutionary war — American Revolution.
  • rural development — social or economic activities or initiatives designed to improve the standard of living in areas far away from large towns or cities
  • saint bonaventure — Saint ("the Seraphic Doctor") 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.
  • sensitivity group — a group of persons participating in sensitivity training.
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • silent revolution — a social or political revolution that takes place with little warning and without great fuss or unrest
  • squash vine borer — the larva of a clearwing moth, Melittia satyriniformis, that bores into the stems of squash and related plants.
  • stellar evolution — the sequence of changes that occurs in a star as it ages
  • subclavian groove — either of two grooves in the first rib, one for the main artery (subclavian artery) and the other for the main vein (subclavian vein) of the arm
  • sunday observance — the fact of keeping Sunday as a special day when people go to church
  • superconductivity — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • supernova remnant — an expanding shell of gas, with accompanying strong radio and x-ray emissions, produced by a supernova.
  • supervision order — an order by a juvenile court requiring a named probation officer or local-authority social worker to advise, assist, and befriend a child or young person who is the subject of care proceedings, over a period of up to three years
  • survivor syndrome — a characteristic group of symptoms, including recurrent images of death, depression, persistent anxiety, and emotional numbness, occurring in survivors of disaster.
  • television lounge — a room in a hotel, guest house, etc where guests may watch television
  • to have it in you — If you have it in you, you have abilities and skills which you do not usually use and which only show themselves in a difficult situation.
  • tongue-and-groove — the technique of making a joint between two boards by means of a tongue along the edge of one board that fits into a groove along the edge of the other board
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