19-letter words containing o, v, i

hotel des invalides — a military hospital built in Paris in the 17th and 18th centuries by Libéral Bruant and J. H. Mansart: famous for its chapel dome, the tomb of Napoleon, and as a military museum.
housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
hudson river school — a group of American painters of the mid-19th century whose works are characterized by a highly romantic treatment of landscape, especially along the Hudson River.
hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
immersion objective — a microscope objective of high resolving power in which the space between the front lens and the cover glass is filled with an oil whose index of refraction is close to that of the objective and the cover glass.
incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
indeterminate vowel — schwa.
information service — a service which provides information
input/output device — a device that passes data into and out of a computer
interactive fiction — an adventure or mystery story, usually presented as a video game or book, in which the player or reader is given choices as to how the storyline is to develop or the mystery is to be solved.
internal conversion — the emission of an electron by an atom with an excited nucleus, occurring as a result of the transfer of energy from the nucleus to the electron.
interval estimation — the process of estimating a parameter of a given population by specifying an interval of values and the probability that the true value of the parameter falls within this interval.
invasion of privacy — an encroachment upon the right to be let alone or to be free from publicity.
inver grove heights — a town in SE Minnesota.
investment compound — investment (def 11).
it serves you right — If you say it serves someone right when something unpleasant happens to them, you mean that it is their own fault and you have no sympathy for them.
japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
jehovah's witnesses — a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.
kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
lady of the evening — a prostitute.
legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
level of attainment — one of ten groupings, each with its own attainment criteria based on pupil age and ability, within which a pupil is assessed
lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
liouville's theorem — the theorem that every function of a complex variable, bounded and differentiable for all finite values of the variable, is a constant function.
live one's own life — If you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's advice or interference.
locomotive engineer — engineer (def 3).
locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
long live/ long may — You use long live and long may in expressions such as 'long live the Queen' and 'long may it continue' to express your support for someone or something and your hope that they will live or last a long time.
lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
love at first sight — instant romantic attraction to sb
lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
magnetic levitation — the suspension of an object above or below a second object by means of magnetic repulsion or attraction.
magnetomotive force — a scalar quantity that is a measure of the sources of magnetic flux in a magnetic circuit. Abbreviation: mmf.
massive retaliation — a strategy of military counterattack that involves the use of nuclear weapons.
matthias i corvinus — ?1440–90, king of Hungary (1458–90): built up the most powerful kingdom in Central Europe. A patron of Renaissance art, he founded the Corvina library, one of the finest in Europe
maturation division — a stage in meiosis during which the chromosomal number of the reproductive cell is reduced to one chromosome from each original chromosome pair.
memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
military government — a government in defeated territory administered by the military commander of a conquering nation.
minor seventh chord — a chord consisting of a minor triad with an added minor seventh above the root
mordvinian republic — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
most favored nation — a nation to which privileges of trade are extended under a government policy of giving the same privileges to all nations that are given to any one of them, sometimes depending on whether certain conditions, as of reciprocity, are met
most-favored-nation — of or relating to the status, treatment, terms, etc., that are embodied in or conferred by a most-favored-nation clause.
motivation research — the application of the knowledge and techniques of the social sciences, especially psychology and sociology, to understanding consumer attitudes and behavior: used as a guide in advertising and marketing.
moving spirit/force — The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it.
mushroom ventilator — a ventilator having at the top of a vertical shaft a broad rounded cap that can be screwed down to close it.
nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish

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