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19-letter words containing p, r, o, v

  • accident prevention — avoidance of the occurrence of an accident
  • appetitive behavior — activity that increases the likelihood of satisfying a specific need, as restless searching for food by a hungry predator (distinguished from consummatory behavior).
  • contemplative order — a religious order whose members are devoted to prayer rather than works.
  • conversational lisp — (language)   (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.
  • cooperative society — a commercial enterprise owned and managed by and for the benefit of customers or workers
  • corporate venturing — the provision of venture capital by one company for another in order to obtain information about the company requiring capital or as a step towards acquiring it
  • counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
  • covered-dish supper — a meal to which guests contribute food, as casseroles.
  • cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
  • detective inspector — a police officer who investigates crime and who ranks above a detective sergeant but below a detective chief inspector
  • developable surface — a surface that can be flattened onto a plane without stretching or compressing any part of it, as a circular cone.
  • direct-vision prism — Amici prism.
  • discovery procedure — any rigorous method by the application of which a grammar might be constructed from a corpus of utterances in a language; an algorithm leading from data to a formulation.
  • disjunctive pronoun — an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
  • diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
  • dose-response curve — a curve plotting the relationship between the dose of a drug administered and its pharmacological effect.
  • evaporative cooling — a method of reducing temperature that uses evaporation
  • eye make-up remover — a product used to remove cosmetics such as mascara and eyeliner
  • farmers cooperative — an organization of farmers for marketing their products or buying supplies.
  • floppy (disk) drive — the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on floppy disks
  • follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
  • give a person a fit — to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
  • governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
  • government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
  • grade point average — a measure of scholastic attainment computed by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number of credits or hours of course work taken.
  • grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
  • have a problem with — to be unable to understand or do
  • hepatic portal vein — a vein connecting two capillary networks in the liver
  • herpes zoster virus — a type of herpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
  • hyperresponsiveness — An abnormally increased responsiveness, especially that due to hypersensitivity or hyperreactivity.
  • incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
  • invasion of privacy — an encroachment upon the right to be let alone or to be free from publicity.
  • japanese arborvitae — a Japanese evergreen tree, Thuja standishii, having spreading branches with bright-green leaves.
  • leave the door open — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • mercury-vapour lamp — a lamp in which an electric discharge through a low pressure of mercury vapour is used to produce a greenish-blue light. It is used for street lighting and is also a source of ultraviolet radiation
  • mild silver protein — a compound of silver and a protein, applied to mucous membranes as a mild antiseptic.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • nail polish remover — solvent for removing nail polish
  • ordnance survey map — An Ordnance Survey map is a detailed map produced by the British or Irish government map-making organization.
  • over-interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
  • overhead projection — the projection (using an overhead projector) of an enlarged image of a transparency onto a surface above and behind the person using it
  • overplay one's hand — If you say that someone is overplaying something such as a problem, you mean that they are making it seem more important than it really is.
  • palomar observatory — an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in S California, having a 200-inch (508-cm) reflecting telescope and a 48-inch (122-cm) Schmidt telescope.
  • peak envelope power — (communications)   (PEP) The maximum power output by a radio transmitter over one complete RF cycle at any modulation.
  • perfect progressive — a verb form including the auxiliary have followed by been and a present participle, noting the continuation of an activity or event, its incompleteness or interruption, and its connection to the temporal point of reference, as in I've been waiting for over an hour, They had been talking about her before she came into the room, or In July, he will have been living here for two years.
  • perpetual inventory — a form of stock control in which running records are kept of all acquisitions and disposals
  • pneumogastric nerve — the vagus nerve.

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