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16-letter words containing o, v, e, r

  • pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
  • premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
  • prerevolutionary — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change: a revolutionary junta.
  • prevost d'exiles — Antoine François [ahn-twan frahn-swa] /ɑ̃ˈtwan frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Abbé Prévost") 1697–1763, French novelist.
  • private property — land or belongings owned by a person or group and kept for their exclusive use
  • privet andromeda — a spreading shrub, Lyonia ligustrina, of the eastern U.S., having leafless, white flowers in terminal clusters.
  • pro-intervention — the act or fact of intervening.
  • proenvironmental — the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu.
  • progressive jazz — an experimental, nonmelodic, and often free-flowing style of modern jazz, especially in the form of highly dissonant, rhythmically complex orchestral arrangements. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, hard bop, modern jazz.
  • progressive jpeg — (graphics, file format)   (PJPEG) An implementation of JPEG that supports progressive coding.
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • projective plane — (mathematics)   The space of equivalence classes of vectors under non-zero scalar multiplication. Elements are sets of the form {kv: k != 0, k scalar, v != O, v a vector} where O is the origin. v is a representative member of this equivalence class. The projective plane of a vector space is the collection of its 1-dimensional subspaces. The properties of the vector space induce a topology and notions of smoothness on the projective plane. A projective plane is in no meaningful sense a plane and would therefore be (but isn't) better described as a "projective space".
  • proper adjective — an adjective formed from a proper noun, as American from America.
  • protective slope — a slope given to a yard or the like to drain surface water away from a building.
  • provost sergeant — the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit.
  • quiet revolution — a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada
  • radiation levels — the levels of the emission or transfer of radiant energy or the levels of the particles emitted in the transfer of radiant energy, esp the particles and gamma rays emitted in nuclear decay
  • radio evangelist — a Christian minister who devotes time to preaching on the radio
  • rear-view mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
  • recovered memory — a memory of a past event that has been recalled after having been forgotten or repressed for a long time. Compare false-memory syndrome.
  • recovery vehicle — a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
  • 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.
  • relative pronoun — one of the pronouns who, whom, which, what, their compounds with -ever or -soever, or that used as the subordinating word to introduce a subordinate clause, especially such a pronoun referring to an antecedent.
  • released version — release
  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • reserve buoyancy — the difference between the volume of a hull below the designed waterline and the volume of the hull below the lowest opening incapable of being made watertight.
  • reversal process — a process for converting the negative on a film or plate to a positive by bleaching and redeveloping.
  • reverse commuter — a commuter who lives in a city and commutes to a job in the suburbs.
  • reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
  • reverse snobbery — a person overly proud of being one of or sympathetic to the common people, and who denigrates or shuns those of superior ability, education, social standing, etc.
  • reverse takeover — the purchase of a larger company by a smaller company, esp of a public company by a private company
  • revised algol 60 — ALGOL 60 Revised
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • rockville centre — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • rodent operative — a name sometimes used for an official (operative) employed by a local authority to destroy vermin
  • roosevelt island — Formerly Welfare Island, Blackwells Island. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long.
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • save as you earn — (in Britain) a savings scheme which offers a tax-free bonus and allows employees to buy shares in the company they work for at a fixed price
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • seal of approval — royal stamp of endorsement
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
  • self-sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • semiconservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • semiprivate room — a hospital room shared by two people, typically with a curtain dividing the room and providing some privacy
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