14-letter words containing r, e, m, o, v
- overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
- precompetitive — in marketing, designating or occurring during the stage prior to the completion of development of a product, when companies collaborate rather than compete
- predevelopment — advance development; the action of developing in advance
- private income — econ: from outside employment
- pulmonary vein — a vein conveying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart.
- relative major — the major key whose tonic is the third degree of a given minor key.
- relative minor — the minor key whose tonic is the sixth degree of a given major key.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- reserve a room — If you reserve a room at a hotel, you keep it for a person who is going to arrive on an agreed date.
- semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- silver bromide — a yellowish, water-insoluble powder, AgBr, which darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a bromide: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions.
- splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
- sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- summer visitor — a person, animal or bird who come to a place in summer
- supreme soviet — the bicameral legislature, comprising the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of the Nationalities; officially the highest organ of state power
- totidem verbis — with just so many words; in these words.
- transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- ubv photometry — the photometric measurement of the color index of a star, using ultraviolet, blue, and visual (yellow) filters.
- valve trombone — a trombone equipped with three or four valves in place of a slide.
- virtual memory — a system whereby addressable memory is extended beyond main storage through the use of secondary storage managed by system software in such a way that programs can treat all of the designated storage as addressable main storage.
- vitreous humor — the transparent gelatinous substance filling the eyeball behind the crystalline lens.
- volume control — switch used to adjust level of sound
- volumetrically — of or relating to measurement by volume.
- volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
- voucher system — Accounting. a procedure for controlling disbursements by means of vouchers.
- watcom vx*rexx — (programming, tool) A visual development environment for creating OS/2 applications with graphical user interfaces. It includes a project management facility, visual designer and an interactive source level debugger. Version 2.1 introduced the VX*REXX Client/Server Edition for client/server GUI application development on OS/2 by incorporating database objects. Using IBM's DRDA support on OS/2, users can access DB2 for MVS, DB2/400 for AS/400, and DB2/VSE and VM (SQL/DS) for VM and VSE. Also supported are Watcom SQL and ODBC-enabled databases. Since the VX*REXX visual development environment is based on IBM's object-oriented SOM technology, VX*REXX applications are open and extensible through the addition of new SOM objects.
- worms eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- yeoman service — excellent service