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16-letter words containing o, v, t

  • phytosuccivorous — feeding on sap, as certain sucking insects.
  • pincers movement — a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.
  • polyvinyl acetal — any of the class of thermoplastic resins derived by the condensation of an aldehyde with polyvinyl alcohol.
  • positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
  • potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pyroconductivity — conductivity brought about by the application of heat, especially in solids that are not conductors at normal temperatures.
  • 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
  • random vibration — Random vibration is a type of forced vibration in which the motion follows no regular pattern.
  • redemption value — the price at which the issuing company may choose to repurchase a security before its maturity date
  • 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.
  • reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
  • 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 takeover — the purchase of a larger company by a smaller company, esp of a public company by a private company
  • 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.
  • savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
  • second adventist — Adventist (def 1).
  • selective memory — an ability to remember some facts while apparently forgetting others, especially when they are inconvenient
  • self-cultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • self-deprivation — the act of depriving.
  • self-development — the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.
  • 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.
  • self-vindication — the act of vindicating.
  • 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
  • send to coventry — to ostracize or ignore
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • service contract — law: between employer and employee
  • service elevator — an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.
  • severance motion — an application made to a judge or court for the division into separate parts of a joint estate, contract, etc
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