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19-letter words containing r, e, l, v, y

  • aggravated burglary — a burglary made more serious by its violent circumstances
  • alternative history — a genre of fiction in which the author speculates on how the course of history might have been altered if a particular historical event had had a different outcome
  • alternative pathway — the activation of complement by contact with polysaccharides on bacteria, protozoa, or yeast cells: a nonspecific immune response. Compare classical pathway.
  • alternative society — a society or social group that espouses values different from those of the established social order.
  • cannot very well do — If you say that you cannot very well do something, you mean that it would not be right or possible to do it.
  • catalytic converter — A catalytic converter is a device which is fitted to a car's exhaust to reduce the pollution coming from it.
  • collect on delivery — payment in cash when a purchase or shipment is delivered
  • collective security — a system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world
  • contradistinctively — In contradistinction.
  • conventional memory — (storage)   The first 640 kilobytes of an IBM PC's memory. Prior to EMS, XMS, and HMA, real mode application could use only this part of the memory.
  • counterproductively — In a counterproductive way.
  • countervailing duty — an extra import duty imposed by a country on certain imports, esp to prevent dumping or to counteract subsidies in the exporting country
  • cry over spilt milk — to lament something that cannot be altered
  • cultural relativity — a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within a specific social context. Also called cultural relativism. Compare ethnocentrism (def 2).
  • curvilinear tracery — tracery, especially of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by a pattern of irregular, boldly curved forms.
  • davy jones's locker — the bottom of the sea; grave of those drowned at sea or buried there
  • display advertising — display ads taken collectively.
  • diversional therapy — the structured use of leisure time in recreation and play as a form of or supplement to conventional therapy
  • electroconductivity — Electrical conductivity.
  • environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
  • february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
  • floppy (disk) drive — the controller and mechanism for reading and writing data on floppy disks
  • government monopoly — the exclusive control of the market supply of a product or service by the government
  • incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
  • lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
  • lymphoproliferative — Characterized by lymphoproliferation.
  • memory like a sieve — a very poor memory
  • 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
  • military government — a government in defeated territory administered by the military commander of a conquering nation.
  • multiple-entry visa — a visa that permits the holder to enter a country several times
  • non-volatile memory — non-volatile storage
  • north valley stream — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • over-sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
  • 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.
  • perpetual inventory — a form of stock control in which running records are kept of all acquisitions and disposals
  • popular sovereignty — the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.
  • provably unsolvable — The set or property of problems for which no algorithm at all exists. E.g. the Halting Problem. See also provably difficult.
  • pyorrhea alveolaris — a chronic periodontitis of the gums and tooth sockets, characterized by the formation of pus and, usually, by loosening of the teeth
  • pyorrhea-alveolaris — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • roosevelt corollary — a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
  • rural free delivery — former name for rural delivery service. Abbreviation: R.F.D.
  • salvage archaeology — the collection of archaeological data and materials from a site in danger of imminent destruction, as from new construction or flooding.
  • san fernando valley — valley in SW Calif., partly in NW Los Angeles: c. 260 sq mi (673 sq km)
  • toonerville trolley — a dilapidated, outmoded trolley line or railway.
  • university hospital — a hospital that is affiliated with a university. University hospitals provide clinical education and training to future and current doctors, nurses, and other health professionals, in addition to delivering medical care to patients
  • velocity microphone — a microphone in which the output varies according to the instantaneous velocity of the air molecules in the incident sound waves.
  • very large database — (database)   (VLDB) A database that can use a Very Large Memory model to keep as much data as possible in physical memory. (Oracle http://oracle.com/platforms/dec/collateral/vlmwp_3.html).

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