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16-letter words containing r, e, s, v, o, i

  • devonshire cream — clotted cream.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • discovered check — a check that is effected by moving an intervening piece from the line of attack of a queen, rook, or bishop.
  • discovery method — a largely unstructured, situational method or philosophy of teaching whereby students are permitted to find solutions to problems on their own or at their own pace, often jointly in group activities, either independent of or under the guidance of a teacher.
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • diversifications — Plural form of diversification.
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • domestic servant — person employed to do household chores
  • domestic service — the work of household servants
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • forinsec service — foreign service
  • government issue — (often initial capital letter) issued or supplied by the government or one of its agencies.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • harvey firestone — Harvey Samuel, 1868–1938, U.S. industrialist and rubber manufacturer.
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
  • hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • in--one-s--favor — something done or granted out of goodwill, rather than from justice or for remuneration; a kind act: to ask a favor.
  • inter-divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
  • intravenous drip — the continuous, slow introduction of a fluid into a vein of the body. Abbreviation: IV.
  • inverse cosecant — arc cosecant.
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • irresolvableness — The state or quality of being irresolvable.
  • labour-intensive — Labour-intensive industries or methods of making things involve a lot of workers. Compare capital-intensive.
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • levallois-perret — a suburb of Paris, in N France, on the Seine.
  • level descriptor — one of a set of criteria used to assess the performance of a pupil in a particular subject
  • lick observatory — the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-cm) refracting telescope.
  • liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
  • lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
  • magnetoresistive — Of or pertaining to magnetoresistance.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • mass observation — the study of the social habits of people through observation, interviews, etc
  • medieval cornish — the Cornish language of the Middle Ages, usually dated from the 14th century to 1600.
  • medieval history — the branch of history dealing with the Middle Ages
  • memorial service — ceremony held in commemoration
  • microvasculature — the system of tiny blood vessels, including capillaries, venules, and arterioles, that perfuse the body's tissues.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • moving staircase — Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  • national service — National service is service in the armed forces, which young people in certain countries have to do by law.
  • neo-conservatism — (in the US) a right-wing tendency that originated amongst supporters of the political left and has become characterized by its support of hawkish foreign policies
  • neoconservatives — Plural form of neoconservative.
  • noise prevention — the prevention of annoying or harmful noise in an environment
  • non-conservative — disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
  • non-constructive — helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive): constructive criticism.
  • non-transitively — Grammar. having the nature of a transitive verb.
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